<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Apologies if this term comes over confusingly in other languages<BR>
<BR>
It does capture for me a big puzzle - it seems obvious to me (once it is pointed out) that great facilitation of self-organising needs to be minimalist, but traditional client sponsors in management positions seem to want to buy the very opposite of minimalist; and even experts, like those in Organisational Design, whom I would have thought should be passionate about Organisational Transformation seem to say (in some limited research I have done) that the minimalism of Open Space can either be scary or unprofitable to propose<BR>
<BR>
Of course, this pair of words, which in the english language seem memorable, wasnt original in my mixing. As far I know they first came from the novel of Milan Kundera "Unbearable Lightness of Being" - amazon review snippet: </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="verdana" LANG="0">In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our private actions, but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine.<BR>
<BR>
sincerely<BR>
chris macrae <BR>
<BR>
</FONT></HTML>
*
*
==========================================================
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
------------------------------
To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,
view the archives of oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu,
Visit:
<p>
http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html