FW: Is Anybody Home?

[Harrison Owen]

From: NigelSeys-Phillips [mailto:nigel at fulcrum.com.sg] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:47 AM
To: hhowen at verizon.net
Subject: RE: Is Anybody Home?

Dear Harrison,

I was thinking exactly the same thing - well, not in terms of your new book
(which is obviously good news) but more how quiet the morning e-mail box was
(apart from multiple personal enhancement opportunities)- and you know you
will start an avalanche again...but from close to the other side of the
world the words "learning" and "political process" in the same sentence does
strike me as challenging!

Looking forward to a bulging inbox from tomorrow onwards

Best regards
Nigel 

Nigel Seys-Phillips
Fulcrum Business Management Solutions
30 Mount Elizabeth
#04-34 Highpoint
Singapore 228519
Tel: +65 9639 2510
E-mail: nigel at fulcrum.com.sg
www.fulcrum.com.sg
 
 
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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Harrison
Owen
Sent: Wednesday, 10 October 2007 8:54 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Is Anybody Home?

Presumably, everybody is busy with useful stuff or just taking a nap (:-)),
but it seems a while since I heard from all my friends. Personally, I have
come back south from my summer abode in Maine and have started on the
Winter's chores. Not that it is really like work, but I find myself thinking
a lot about where OST has taken me. At the simplest level OST as become a
marvelous natural experiment probing a very different understanding of the
capacity of human beings for productive and fulfilling work, and the way we
might approach the work that we do. Several years ago I wrote a book, "The
Practice of Peace," exploring the work of Peace Making. Currently on my desk
is another effort looking at the ways in which we have sub-optimized and
underestimated the capacity for superior performance. Whether this actually
turns into a book or not, remains to be seen, but the interest is there. And
then there is the marvelous opportunity to do an OS with a large software
company designing a new major product line. I think we could learn just how
ineffective we have been in this area, and how one might radically raise the
level of performance. And I am wondering what you may have discovered???

For example, we have used OST quite a bit in an educational environment
apparently to good effect. But then my question is what have we learned
about the nature of education and how we might do it better. And of course,
here in the US we are totally enmeshed in the Political Season and I wonder
what we may have learned about the political process, and how to do it
better and more effectively. . . Just Wondering.

Harrison

Harrison Owen
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Phone 301-365-2093
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