[OSList] The Conversation deepens...

[Skye Hirst]

ah,  yes,  there IS the urgency.  Let's not be sleepwalkers. Thanks so much
for this,


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:

> For the last several years I have been asking for, pleading for, begging
> for an extended and deep conversation which starts with the premise that
> this is a self organizing world, beginning, middle and end. Living fully
> and productively in such a world requires that we think some new, and (some
> would say) radical and heretical thoughts about management, leadership, the
> nature of organization, power...and much more. Good old OST gives us a good
> experimental base, but that is just the beginning. I think. And while some
> might see OST as a useful "tool" for the enhancement of organizations as we
> know them, in my view OST is a wonderful Trojan Horse, which, in a not so
> subtle manner, blows those understandings and ways of working quite out of
> the water. It clears some space for the new conversations to take place,
> while simultaneously offering some useful contributions to the content of
> those conversations. Some of these conversations are now taking place,
> thanks to our good friends from AGILE and SCRUM, and more participants are
> show up in some rather odd places. Our friend Claudia Gross (of Cairo)
> brought the following to my attention, and with great pleasure I pay it
> forward. Thank you Claudia.
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> "My second observation concerns hotspots of energy. What makes 2,500 of
> the world's elite business, government and thought leaders in civil society
> travel to this remote and (otherwise) sleepy small town in Switzerland? My
> sense is that they come to participate in a distributed field of energy
> hotspots. What fuels these hotspots? It's not the big staged events. It's
> not the tightly structured panels and speeches by heavy hitters and big
> names. There's a field of human interconnectivity that flows through the
> corridors, lounges, coffee bars, dinner tables, evening parties, and
> shuttle rides. It's like an inverted or flipped event: the formal public
> events are just an occasion to get together, a backdrop; but the real
> event, the real encounters and learning, happens in the fluid and mostly
> self-organizing space outside the meeting rooms.
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> - Otto Scharmer in this article:
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> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/otto-scharmer/davos-mindfulness-hotspot_b_4671062.html?utm_hp_ref=email_share
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> "In other words, just through the experience of self-organising, people
> begin to question the need for traditional leaders, even if they aren't
> initially doing particularly radical things with their newfound freedom."
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> taken from the guide to Constructive Subversion by Liam Barrington-Bush
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> http://roarmag.org/2013/12/constructive-subversive-guide-change/
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*Skye Hirst, PhD*
President - The Autognomics Institute
*Conversations in the Ways of Life-itself*
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