Open Space intro at Google Headquarters--I'm looking for intro ideas

[Chris Macrae]

Open spaced lunch-hours

I think we "undersell" how having experienced one whole open space changes the 
way people if they have a choice convene all future meetings, now that we are 
well and truly into what Peter Drucker caleld the knowledge worker age

i am going to make hypothesis that at least the top people at google are not 
the ordinary big org leaders that are often part of the "confusion" block that 
the open space is politically innovaing everyone's way through. Our experience 
is that where someone whop people looked up to knows that a transformation 
goal is about resolving conflicts and system chnage then this process can work

The leader with deep authority in an area of importance to the organisation 
annouces that a cofee-tabled size gatehring is being hosted on a specific 
innovation challenge, and asks the whole organsiation to help in finding who 
are the rihht people to be there

The host defines the challenge in terms of conflict questions; then 
essentially people postit other questions or mini-session discussions they 
would want; these can be clustered while people are at the table; photo the 
output of the tabletop and put it up on an internal web; ...

There's room for ad libbing a bit more what goes on at such a lunchour 
roundtable but already I suggest meetings just don't get hosted this way 
unless an organisation is open space experienced

chris macrae
http://openspaceraces.blogspot.com
http://valueofweb.blogspot.com



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