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At 10:31 AM 9/26/2002 -0400, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>How come
OS never makes it onto the Organizational Development radar
screen?</font><br>
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<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><br>
<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><br>
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<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><font face="arial"></font></blockquote><br>
Truth to tell, ODN does space out occasionally. In 1995 (I think) in
Baltimore, and again in San Diego, I opened some space for the
whole crowd -- 800-900 folks -- so they have been there. I remember one
strange occurrence in San Diego where I noticed that somebody was
offering a session of "Designing Self-Organizing Systems." ????
But your question still stands.<br><br>
Anyhow, I think it boils down to two factors, bluntly stated. First folks
wonder how something so simple could possibly work, 'cause everybody
knows that if it is good it has to be complex. Which of course means that
you have to have an "expert" do it. And then of course, if it
is that simple, and does actually work -- how would I charge for it? We
could go further and deeper, but that about covers it for me.<br><br>
Harrison<br><br>
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