Management in a World of Turtles

[Harrison Owen]

Luccas -- when you say that "solid time" stands in your way, I can certainly
understand. And if any one of us tried to do it all, the problem only gets
impossible. I think we all do what we can do -- but your efforts might be
expanded were you to spend some time helping others to open their own space.
In short do a training program. It doesn't have to be elaborate to be
effective. When Raffi wrote that he had the opportunity to do a program and
needed help, I responded that I KNOW he can do just fine and so can you. And
when it comes to help -- OSLIST, as you know, has all the helpers you can
handle.

But your major point about just opening space is right on! Every time space
is opened several thing happen. Work gets done, people are empowered, they
also can see clearly the difference between what they can do in Open Space
and what they feel able to do in the 9-5 setting. Pretty revolutionary! For
some, this perception of difference motivates them to make some basic
changes. Others find the difference a source of dispair. Still others just
feel the pain and dismiss it -- after all OS was only a weird situation. I
am truly sorry for the pain, but if it became accute enough, there might
actually be some movement. Should we then accentuate the pain to maximize
the gain? Possible thought, which may make many uncomfortable. But at the
very least it might be the responsible to help people to at least
acknowledge the pain and consider their options.

Harrison


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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Lucas
Gonzalez
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 8:21 AM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Management in a World of Turtles

>think about the 6 and 1/2 billion potential clients
>and come to the conclusion that we really don't have the
>couches or ashrams in sufficient number to do the job.

Do we, with OST?  Could you imagine servicing so many clients, soon?  I
like the idea very much, but how do we get from here to there?

What stops us?  I certainly know what stops me, and I want to share it
knowing that you'll be ruthless (not against me, I hope, but in the
quest for change in the world).

What stops me in general is lack of solid time.  It's not so easy to
tell others (boss/family/community) "Hey, I'm going to take two days
off".  Maybe it's not lack of solid time, but rather a difficulty in
replying to the "What do you say you're going to use those two days
for?" question that would inevitably (and sensibly, from their point of
view) come up.  I may be tempted to say "whatever happens is the only
thing that could", but they won't believe it (I do).  In particular,
when I look at my day job, I feel it would be difficult to get support,
both for the event and for whatever happens later ("Change?
Out-of-control change?  No way!").

In short, I believe it may be a matter of "trying it the first time".
Maybe there are some ideas for that?  I can think of the following:
- simultaneous OST-event all over the world
- nomad OST practitioners
- nano OST-events

Ok, be ruthless, then.

Lucas



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