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hi chris m, <br>
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i find that there is ALWAYS something in the culture/story of any organization
that is totally consistent with how open space works. at one export trade
council, it was the tradeshow and marketplace. at one church, it was the
buzz that happened on the church steps after mass, and the ritual of practice.
with software developers, it was wiki website that they used to manage projects,
or their 3x5-cards-on-the-table method of organizing modules being written.
in very competitive analytical places it's the voting with the feet, the
speed of documentation, and numbers of issues and people able to be processed
and involved quickly. one latino group recently got excited about proceedings
posted in gallery form and understood it immediately as mural. the story
and link/bridge seems always there. i try to listen to the story, find the
link, make it bridge, and then bring as many pieces of ost across the bridge
as i can. what i can't get across, i sometimes point to in the distance.
any selling that might occur is more of a noticing of the benefits of adding
each piece of ost ritual to what's already in place on their side of the
bridge.<br>
<br>
m<br>
<br>
<br>
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Birgitt Williams wrote:<br>
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<div><span class="970094819-15012004"><font face="Arial">Chris,</font></span></div>
<div><span class="970094819-15012004"><font face="Arial">Many of us have
had great success by providing the prospective client with a list of large
group methodologies. An excellent resource in a nice table is on Martin
Leith's site <a href="http://www.martinleith.com">www.martinleith.com</a>
. I use one of his handouts, I quote from The Change Handbook by Peggy Holman
and Tom Devane (Berrett-Koehler, 1999) and I refer them to Large Group Interventions
by Billie Alban and Barbara Bunker (Jossey Bass, 1997). It all makes a great
business case. And then I let them know that my favorite method is OST because
my clients have had the greatest benefit from the most open of the methods.
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<div><span class="970094819-15012004"><font face="Arial">I also believe
in "selling" benefits rather than methods. </font></span></div>
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<div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left"><font
face="Tahoma" size="2">-----Original Message-----<br>
<b>From:</b> OSLIST [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a>]<b>On Behalf
Of </b>chris macrae<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 15, 2004 2:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Unbearable lightness of open management<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" color="navy"
size="3"><span lang="SV" style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy;">My research
of human resource and OD types interaction with OS (primarily in UK) has
begun and initial patterns suggest these 3 blocks:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" color="navy"
size="3"><span lang="SV" style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy;">1.Corporations-
haven’t heard of OS<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
lang="SV" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
lang="SV" style="font-size: 12pt;">2.Consultants<font color="navy"><span
style="color: navy;"> - </span></font></span>Aware but (block loop 1)
wouldn’t know how to sell <span style=""> </span>lack of structure, NB opposite
to what clients expect in 2 senses : a) what they do with their people
normally, b) what they pay facilitators to actively facilitate<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">3. Aware but (block loop 2) wouldn’t know how to
market as a core method of my career as a facilitator – take so much time
to propose with so little days work back etc<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">I guess this isn’t big news to many alumni here,
but has there been a recent debate on whether there are any newly emerging
ways to bust these blocks? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">A very small idea might be if we could come up
with 9 other open methods as a top of 10 of open. Perhaps if everyone
in corporations could recognise that innovation and self-organising depends
on at least one open method they already know, one could cross-fertilise
the whole family. Do you have any open methods to add to this top 10 shopping
list (if indeed you agree that items appearing are all open)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">“Unbearable lightness of open management”- 10 most
open methods of innovating<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">1 open space<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">2 email (fully developed use of virtual teams,
practice communities, personal networks)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">3 grounded theory (being an iterative opinion research
method which starts with a blank canvass rather than conventional wisdom
on issue of inquiry)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="GramE"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4 storytelling
as iterative process in systemising communal energy, emotional participation</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">-survey what’s our greatest story<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">-see if people really participate in it<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">-see what change it systemically connects with<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="GramE"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">sincerely</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Chris Macrae, <a
href="mailto:wcbn007@easynet.co.uk">wcbn007@easynet.co.uk</a>, <a
href="http://www.valuetrue.com/">www.valuetrue.com</a> 2004 Year of Transparency<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Although nobody has filled it in yet, there is
also an open format of the mini-survey I have been carrying out at<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><a
href="http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?forum=1&topic=66&comment=2097">http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?forum=1&topic=66&comment=2097</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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