2-hour Board Meetings

[Harrison Owen]

Far be it from me to turn from opening space. But the reason I asked the
question comes from experience with multiple Board Meetings. I grant you
that there are what we call "working boards" -- where folks actually take an
active part in the organization. But more often, Boards tend to be "Decision
Making" -- and even that is stretching the case. As I watch them, they are
merely confirming/formalizing decisions that are already made, usually by
taking a vote. In such cases, there is not much space open.

Harrison

Harrison Owen
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Phone 301-365-2093

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin
Giannini
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:17 AM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: 2-hour Board Meetings

Thank you everyone for your quick response.  Harrison, the business is
"as-usual".  However, the members of the group are open-minded and the
current Chair in particular is comfortable and happy to use Open Space.
  He sees it as a way to have everyone raise the issues important to
them and to have the space to discuss them.  I think this is just a
question of: do we meet in the usual fashion or do we do something that
we all know is more in line with our values?  Right.  But then the
question still dawns:  Is OS the proper "tool" to use?

Huh.

Thanks a million!  Martin Giannini in Dublin, Ireland

On 28 Feb 2005, at 20:37, Harrison Owen wrote:

And I am also curious -- what do they want to accomplish? Is there are
real
business issue with lots of complexity, diversity, conflict and
urgency? If
so -- why not devote more time (like a day or two). If not -- why do
Open
Space?

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