Help for my manager, (Crazy like a fox)

[Mike Copeland]

Good on ya Michael!

Great stuff I loved the way you put it:
 when we look in to the usual rhetoric, I find that lots of folks just can't
defend or explain it.  often folks end up using the empty standards as if
they were true.

You have put very beautifully a phenomenon I experience also when dealing
with people about open space. : this great fear that a new way will be
ineffective while the old way is so ineffective, stale and smelly it's a
dead moose! Open space is given these huge goals that unless they are met it
is doomed and the dead moose is then dragged out, and venerated once again.

I may be in a different situation from you in that I work as a facilitator
within an org. and possibly I suffer from that thing of
                "a prophet is not without honor except in his own home"

Jesus Christ

I have thought about this phenomenon a great deal, as I live in an org and
with the stench of dead moose all around! I think perhaps people are
comfortable with the stink as long as they can hold onto their ego, power or
control. When we as an org use less open formats for our meetings and
gatherings I sub consciously go into a naughty school boy routine. I'm
expected to sit passively and swallow what is going to happen. Perhaps, now
I've sampled the sweet aroma of open space, I am yelling "open the bloody
window I can't stand it any longer!"

All the Best
Mike Copeland


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