FW: Towards fewer training wheels

douglas germann 76066.515 at compuserve.com
Sat May 30 11:53:58 PDT 2009


Harrison--

Thanks!

			:- Doug.



On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 14:20 -0400, Harrison Owen wrote:
> I like it! Pretty soon there will be nothing left "not to do" -- we just go
> to work!!
> 
> Harrison
> 
> Harrison Owen
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> germann
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> Subject: Towards fewer training wheels
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> Hi--
> 
> Rereading in Wave Rider, I noticed Harrison's formula for the care and
> feeding of self-organizing systems: Gather in a circle,... and ending
> with Get to work.
> 
> It may be the germ of nurturing self organizing is in that last
> phrase.
> 
> That is, do we move closer to no training wheels if we say: Open Space
> is simply people getting to work.
> 
> (Also notice the double entendre here: in American idiom, getting to
> means not only "moving into the phase of," but also "Oh, boy! I finally
> have my wish!")
> 
> 			:- Doug.
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