[OSList] bridging two OS conferences

Michael M Pannwitz mmpannwitz at gmail.com
Fri Aug 16 00:23:01 PDT 2013


...even though he might never have heard of OST, this is how Ricardo 
Semler does his outfit in Brazil as reported on in his books "Maverick" 
and "The Seven-Day Weekend" (I see these books in English and Italian 
and Spanish on Amazon)
...and as done by Hans-Georg Wicke who has extensively worked with OST 
for 13 years in his outfit in Germany, as reported in an article that 
has appeared in an ebook (this book contains the report in three 
languages, German, English and Polish...a second addition with more 
languages added - French, Spanisch, Chinese - is in the 
making...available here directly at the publisher
> http://www.westkreuz-verlag.de/de/Jugend-fuer-Europa-E-Book
or here at amazon
> http://www.amazon.de/Jugend-Europa-Jahre-Praxis-ebook/dp/B00CDU67H0/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1376636746&sr=1-2&keywords=Jugend+f%C3%BCr+Europa

As far as documentation is concerned in OST events in sequence, I would 
generally also suggest to start "clean"... but most important, I think, 
I would have the sponsor/client and his Planning Group mull over this 
and think up something that best fits their purpose...
On a more broader level, I think documentation of the breakout sessions 
is highly overrated... If the sponsor/client is interested in action 
planning and action itself that is initiated and pushed by the conveners 
of action (as described in your mail) documentation might be more 
important... it does require a three day event with a really diverse 
group (in a hospital this would include the patients, among others) to 
come up with robust, sustainable etc. action..
But again, let the folks running their enterprise decide... I get the 
impression I and some others in this trade, concern ourselves far too 
much with matters which are the sponsor's/client's business.
In the first order I am not an OD consultant or consultant of whatever 
color (I am good at that and it gets into my way all the time) but a 
sort of midman standing back, letting the forces of selforganisation do 
their stuff.

Greetings from Berlin where I am spending increasing chunks of my days 
in minding the blackberries in our garden

mmp


On 16.08.2013 00:08, Kári Gunnarsson wrote:
> I have also done 2 open spaces (both 3 day, one afther another), for a
> multinational assosiation of youth organizations. We tryed to i plememt
> some notion on building on the work from the other groups. To day I
> would not choose to do it that way, I think that I should rather put my
> trust in the passion of the people that are present, and start clean
> with the purpuse of the space. Then we can put it all in one document
> and invite people to form formal planing and action groups with support
> from management ( like to use the meeting rooms and take time from other
> work within limits ). One of my clients likes to think about the
> aftherwork as projects, and then give these projects funing to rent the
> them selfes from the departments management, then it is up to the team
> to sell there idea and get the funding wherever, whenever.
>
>
>
> --
> Kári Gunnarsson
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