<html><div>At 10:05 PM 3/5/00 -0800, you wrote:</div>
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<div>>Someone asked me yesterday why Open Space alwasy seems to work,
and I</div>
<div>>replied with the short answer: "I dunno." I
sometimes feel that, in</div>
<div>>learning and practicing OST, it's as if I have been given a gift
from a</div>
<div>>genie.</div>
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<div>Maybe it is a genie -- but I suspect it is all about
self-organization. Knowing why Open Space works probably won't make it
work any better, but it may well enable us to work better with Open
Space. </div>
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<div>Should it turn out that Open Space is simply self-organization at
work, and further that self-organization in human systems is just the way
things are... despite our great labor and anxiety to organize things ...
We could get a lot more done with a lot less hassle -- and certainly
enjoy it more. </div>
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<div>If anybody wants to pursue this notion you might check out my
website (below) in the section "Papers" -- looking for one
called "Emergent Order" which originally appeared in the ODN
Practicioner" Then again you might wander through my new book,
"The Power of Spirit: How Organizations Tranform"
(Berrett-Koehler July 2000).</div>
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<div>Harrison</div>
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