[OSList] Ready!

[lucia pavia Ticzon]

i recently had a similar experience.

wish i could be there ...
greetings from the philippines !

luchie

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Linda Stevenson <stevenson8899 at msn.com>wrote:

>  For almost twenty years, I have been ready to bring the experience of
> intentional self-organization via Open Space to organizations and
> communities across the globe. And as Harrison has pointed out from the
> beginning, trying to sell this is like trying to teach a pig to sing: the
> pig doesn't like it, and it sounds terrible! From my experience over the
> years, Harrison's insight was accurate.
>
> However, perhaps because the more prescriptive interventions alone are not
> enough in these complex times and/or frustration is building, there is more
> readiness to try new approaches, even the simplicity and non-prescriptive
> self-organizing approach of Open Space (what people perceive before hand as
> foreign and a waste of time, but is actually what they already know how to
> do in order to create the most effective and efficient results). There is a
> growing heart-felt ache to experience authentic and adaptive leadership and
> the corresponding benefits.
>
> Thanks to Michele Norris, a member of the WOSonOS Global Host team in
> Florida, from whom I received this excerpted video clip of the 2011 World
> Economic Forum in Davos featuring the new young global shapers, the
> millennials:
> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0hJ8JesQDPAN1ZHN3UtZHJOUnc/edit?pli=1
> which includes the following compelling comments on leadership:
>
>
>    - We're so effectively connected and are not needing hierarchies.
>    - We're incredibly passionate and not afraid to fail.
>    - It's important to collaborate with both the young and the old.
>    - Values include be open, interconnectivity, equity, empowerment,
>    interconnectivity, respect, honesty, and authenticity.
>    - Leadership is defined as the role where you facilitate a team of
>    people for creating the best results (not about having a solution at the
>    beginning but creating the environment for the best people in your group to
>    ultimately achieve the most cohesive answer.)
>    - Leadership should be more inclusive and collaborative and take in
>    the recommendations of others.
>    - Leadership is all about a culture which is incredibly supported by
>    every team member available to call anytime.
>    - Leaders can bring out the talents of any person in any situation
>    which is so, so supportive.
>    - Leadership inspiration and wisdom can be learned from the older
>    generations.
>    Leader is anyone who can allow people to do more and do better than
>    any one can do on their own.
>    - Transparency in leadership and communicating values are more
>    important than popularity.
>
>
>
> These young millennials are screaming Open Space! They are ready to
> experience leadership of the self-organizing kind, and ready to collaborate
> with the old. I find our theme for this year's WOSonOS in Florida very
> appropriate: The World Is Waiting - Are We Ready?
>
> Hope to see you there,
> Linda
>
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