ost in the nytimes

[Cliodhna Mulhern]

Michael

I think it is the writer of the article who thinks the name is  
bureaucratic-sounding. Certainly the Transition manual does not take  
that view...it recommends OS to all transition towns...
Cliodhna

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On 20 Apr 2009, at 16:29, Michael Herman wrote:

> found this reference a bit shocking... when's the last time you  
> heard ost described as "bureaucratic"????
>
> this from page two of the article, as posted online...
>
> The Transition Handbook reads like an imaginative take on a  
> corporate-management text. It recommends techniques for building  
> consensus, from bureaucratic-sounding protocols like Open Space  
> Technology to an exercise in which people decorate a potato like a  
> superhero. “The Transition model,” the founder of one English  
> Transition Town explained to me, “provides a structure, a foundation  
> for organizing.” And along with Transition’s emphasis on hopefulness  
> over fear, this rigorous playbook seems to set it apart from earlier  
> grass-roots crusades.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/magazine/19town-t.html?pagewanted=2
>
> maybe we already had some talk here about transition town stuff?   
> wonder what this manual might have done to make ost sound  
> bureaucratic.
>
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