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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ralph...............I'm with you on the OS-OD mish-
mash..............Use what you need when you can.Amen.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Grace T.</FONT></DIV>
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<A href="mailto:ralph@earthdreams.net" title=ralph@earthdreams.net>Ralph
Copleman</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 27, 2002 12:10
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: OST vs OD</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=Palatino>Meg and all,<BR><BR>I’m quite surprised by
some of the reactions to this “provocative” question.<BR><BR>Maybe I’m out of
the mainstream (very probably true) of both OS and OD practice, but my sense
of things is that OD has, in fact, accepted OS as part of its interventional
cabinet. Not everybody does it, but not everybody does anything is the
widely differentiated OD world. It seems to me that when I mention OS to
my colleagues, they all know about it and many acknowledge their own use of
it. Just about all indicate respect for its contribution. Almost
no one criticizes it (to me, which may be a factor, since they know I use it a
lot.)<BR><BR>I’m not a big defender of the OD field any more, not since I
concluded it gave up its mission of democratizing and humanizing organizations
and replaced it with near-blind willingness to help execs manipulate people
for the exclusive sake of the financial bottom line. But I’m not certain
its wise for we OS folks to tell ourselves that “OD” people don’t use OS
strictly out of monetary considerations.<BR><BR>I have not been to an ODN big
event in years. They’re way too large for me, but If the ODN used OS at
its annual conferences, I might actually go again. The fact that the
national conference is not conducted in OS, however, is not for me a measure
of the field’s acceptance of open space. In the end, whether a certain
group accepts it or not doesn’t matter anyway.<BR><BR>Ralph Copleman</FONT>
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