[OSList] [SPAM] A.MX - Re: Ang.: How to assess the effectiveness of an OS Meeting.

[Annamarie Pluhar]

HI all, 

Slightly off topic, maybe, but I'd be interested in your thoughts.  HO says (copied below) we are self-organizing top to bottom, beginning to end.  

So how does one handle in a community garden the one person who consistently doesn't act in the best interests of the community but only insists on her perspective? Flouting agreements, signed contracts.. etc. etc.  I think the answer is in total transparency?  That the folks who knew this was going on didn't broadcast it and make it apparent to everyone else? 

Of course this is relevant to anytime you have a group of people doing something together:  teamwork, project management... 

I often think of the adage "One bad apple spoils the barrel" .. I wonder if there are versions of this is German, French, Spanish, Swedish, Hebrew...  ? Unlike in Open Space the gardeners can't pick up and move their gardens to another space....  (though I do fear some are opting out which will eventually kill the garden) 

Your thoughts? 

Thanks! 


Annamarie Pluhar

Pluhar Consulting
http://www.pluharconsulting.com
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On May 6, 2013, at 8:56 AM, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:

> We are, for better or worse, self organizing systems, top to bottom, beginning to end. And it remains true that organizing a self organizing system is not only an oxymoron, but futile and destructive.

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