<html><div>At 06:35 PM 3/20/00 +1000, you wrote:</div>
<div>>Dear Friends</div>
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<div>>At a recent lunch with an OS colleague (with suitable liquid
encoragement -</div>
<div>>perhaps a little more than two martinis!) I described OS as an
operating</div>
<div>>system (like Microsoft Windows 98) in contrast to other useful
techniques</div>
<div>>(eg De Bono, scenario planning and the like) as high powered,
focused</div>
<div>>applications (like MS Word).</div>
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<div>Given the crashing nature of win98 -- I am a little nervous with the
analog. But the idea is a good one. Certainly folks have used all sorts
of "interventions and processes (i&p)" in Open Space, but
there is a worry and a caution. Some of these i&ps seem to close
space down. I guess the real point is that you can do whatever you want,
just don't infringe on the space of others. So any time I hear somebody
saying, "Let's all do ______" I get quite nervous. Unless of
course everybody really wants to do it. And then who am I to stand in
their way. Good thinking!</div>
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<div>Harrison</div>
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