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At 07:10 PM 3/14/2002 -0500, Sharon wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>I am part of a "chaordic
helpers" group for an organization going<br>
through the chaordic process. I offered to "help" by
facilitating some<br>
OS sessions but that hasn't gone anywhere yet. I have to say
that as a<br>
peripheral participant in this process the group seems to be getting
the<br>
downsides of chaos and order rather than the benefits of both. A
small<br>
design group is doing most of the "work" leaving the bulk of
the<br>
organization both confused by the chaordic terms and feeling excluded
by<br>
the process. As time goes on tempers are rising - the
"in" group is<br>
defending the "out" group is attacking. It will be
interesting to see<br>
where this ends up. I would love to hear how a group that
uses OST as<br>
part of a chaordic design goes.<br><br>
Interestingly I think the key problem is that the group is focussing
on<br>
"design" rather than what their core purpose is. If they
had just done<br>
some OST's to affirm the core principles of the group and set up
some<br>
clear "givens" within which the organization would work then
perhaps the<br>
group could really act as a "chaord" instead of just spending
so much<br>
time planning to be a chaord.</blockquote><br>
Exactly my point -- stress, strain and guilt. I think the real point is
that organizations are Chaordic -- (read self-organizing) but are not
willing to accept that or trust that. So they act as if it were something
they had to design/become. Fruitless, I think. And for sure a little Open
Space would help -- if only to enable them to perceive what they already
are. <br><br>
Harrison <br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Harrison Owen</blockquote>
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