<html><div>At 06:43 PM 4/2/00 -0400, you wrote:</div>
<div>>My Assumption: CEO's get paid to Open Space in their
organizations to</div>
<div>>capitilizes on the above to meet their organizations goals. An
OS</div>
<div>>facilitator is in essence doing the CEO's function in this
regard.</div>
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<div>>If this is a correct assumption then the Fair Market Value of OS
might</div>
<div>>be....1 day of CEO's pay X no. days OS facilitation + 2 days
(prep</div>
<div>>recovery).... example 3 day OS event = 5 day CEO's daily pay.
Just imagine</div>
<div>>what one would be paid for if Opening Space in
Microsoft!</div>
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<div>This is great -- but for me the math would be harder then the Open
Space. But there was a time when I did an Open Space for a $300 million
company -- small but quite well known. The CFO was furious. We basically
closed the company for two whole days. He figured it cost him a Million a
day. Anyhow, but the end of the first day, in addition to a whole mess of
other stuff, the folks had designed a new product (including
manufacturing and marketing plans) and re-designed their inventory
system. The CFO figured the first was worth $24 million a year, and the
second saved $4 million. Total addition to the bottom line in 8 hours $28
Million. Not to shabby, considering the folks also had fun. Anyhow, I
caught him early on the second day. He was smiling -- broadly. I figured
I would catch him when he was in a good mood to tell him that next time
it was on percentage. He didn't smile.</div>
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<div>Harrison</div>
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