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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a provocative (?!) question.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>How come OS never makes it onto the Organizational
Development radar screen?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've just checked out the big OD conference in
Montreal this October, bringing in Fritjof Capra, Meg Wheatley, and lots of
folks talking about complex adaptive, chaordic systems.... and how to create
them (what a non-sequitur that is!) <A
href="http://www.odnetwork.org/conf2002/index.html">www.odnetwork.org/conf2002/index.html</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And Chris brought our attention to a Plexus
institute on complexity etc. with no mention of OS. So the theory behind
complexity and self-organization is becoming quite popular.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So why is it that such a simple, widely practiced
and successful "approach" such as OS - which is self-organization in action and
has been talked/ written about as such (HO) - never gets talked about? or simply
ignored? Is it too threatening? Is it hard to be a typical guru and do the
speaker circuit thing? Or is it just most of these folks are doing the same old
thing (you know - being the expert) but speaking new language?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Something in my gut is really sticking on this
one.........!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Meg Salter</FONT></DIV>
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