<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">If I understand Open Space correctly, it's a more human way of communing. At the same time when you take it to people who professionalise how organisational communications structures work - internally with people doing work or externally with learning how to resolve the competing demands of the people the organisation should serve - the story goes that the powers that be say: if your better approach to communing works, then 95% of what we teach , practice and do in management is erroneous. And because of that OS has to do a lot of its work below the radar.<BR>
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Yet do we have time to go on below the radar when youth around the world talks like this:<BR>
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What I would urgently like to explore how to connect all of the above, with how societies permit media and communications to happen locally or globally. I'd really like some of you to come along and help with the conversational exploration of that at the biggest virtual tent Chautauqua.<BR>
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LINK http://groupjazz.com/chautauqua/<BR>
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Conversation tracks where we've tried particularly to cue open space passions include:<BR>
http://groupjazz.gjhost.com/gj/swebsock/0000747/0493376/GJ14/main/viewitem.cml?10+30+377+5+2+x+1+ilist6#here<BR>
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Open conversations are on now until the end of February. Registration is fee but takes a minute to do if you haven't been before. Harrison should already be regsitered because he holsted one of the first chautauqua at http://groupjazz.gjhost.com/gj/swebsock/0004927/0364417/GJ14/main/viewitem.cml?3+0+133+27+0+0+1+x++#here<BR>
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all the communal best to everyone<BR>
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chris macrae<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Main Tent Beyond Branding <A HREF="http://groupjazz.gjhost.com/gj/swebsock/0000747/0493376/GJ14/main/viewitem.cml?53+14+377+2+0+x+1+x#here">Item 2: Big Tent, Big Scene-Setting</A></B></B> <BR>
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<B>14-FEB-2004 18:11 <A HREF="http://groupjazz.gjhost.com/gj/swebsock/0000747/0493376/GJ14/main/me.cml?53+14+x+x+x+x+x+x+chrismacrae">chris macrae</A> </B>FH2 (scenario demonstrated from mid 1980s) : a better way for 100 or 1000 people to commune in real <B>spaces</B> has been designed: taken to the top executive of America’s largest management association – what value will <B>Open</B> <B>Space</B> technology have in the business world? ; after a long lunch reply: if you’re right then 95% of what we teach about management is wrong. To this day professional mangers are strongly advised by this Association not to touch <B>Open</B> <B>Space.</B> Conversely, nearly 100000 performances, in 80 countries with a tight knit alumni network of facilitators are prepared to <B>open</B> <B>spaces</B> however big the conflict or the innovation challenge. Harrison Owen, charming inventor of OS was going to be a priest until he became an Large Scale Innovation Facilitator still knits all alumni together. In his latest book, Practice of Peace, he reflects on his experiences in all mildness : many, if not most organisations, are no longer able to do what they were designed to do. (more at <A HREF="http://www.practiceofpeace.com/">http://www.practiceofpeace.com</A> or <A HREF="http://www.openpspaceworld.com/">http://www.openspaceworld.com</A> or chatQ with Harrison) FH3 (in the mid 1980s as service then knowledge then global networks blossomed, more of a company’s value became invested in whole system goodwill than the parts that accountants book). It’s long story (with biases on my side because I was sacked after 5 years at a Big 5 consultancy for not accepting brand valuation algorithms) but as a mathematician I can tell you that it would be impossible to invent worse maths for compounding conflicts and eroding goodwill than the short-term last 90 day numbers that still governs many organisations performance systems. We need a second governance system (which is already mathematically <B>open</B> sourced) and we need all human disciplines to reconnect rather than being separated by business cases that have made the least human specialist king of each intangible (eg ad agencies master of the brand, IT as masters of knowledge management, who knows what masters of lifelong learning humans need) <B><A HREF="http://groupjazz.gjhost.com/gj/swebsock/0000747/0493376/GJ14/main/viewitem.cml?53+14+377+2+3+x+1+x#here">2:3)</A> 15-FEB-2004 07:42 <A HREF="javascript:%20pop_up('person',%20'johnm@roundourhouse.com');">John Moore</A> </B>I'd also like to pick up on Chris' reference to <B>Open</B> <B>Space.</B> I think <B>Open</B> <B>Space</B> is quite challenging to many of our preconceptions about how human organisations can be "made to work" and requires a willingness on the part of sponsors to take a step into the unknown. <B>... </B> <B>Open</B> <B>Space</B> surprises participants by controlling less and giving them "agency" - the power and responsibility to create the conversations they want in an organisation. They discover that this process does not need to be managed by someone else. Cluetrain highlights how the conversation economy increasingly shapes brands way beyond the bidding of so-called brand managers. In a way, a form of <B>Open</B> <B>Space</B> is being forced on organisations anyway. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=5 PTSIZE=16 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Main Tent Beyond Branding <A HREF="http://groupjazz.gjhost.com/gj/swebsock/0000747/0493376/GJ14/main/viewitem.cml?53+14+377+3+0+x+1+x#here">Item 3: Did the World Learn from Andersen’s Betrayal of the Golden Rule</A></B></B> <BR>
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<B>14-FEB-2004 18:29 <A HREF="http://groupjazz.gjhost.com/gj/swebsock/0000747/0493376/GJ14/main/me.cml?53+14+x+x+x+x+x+x+chrismacrae">chris macrae</A> </B>At the same time, this leader should know that the less caring global organisations will gang up on any such leadership program. To protect his government, at the same time as dialoguing with the big corporations, he should help local communities develop <B>open</B> <B>spaces.</B> This is a method, developed by a guy (Harrison Owen www.practiceofpeace.com) whose career was originally religious, where 5000 people can meet in circles and all participate in resolving a big communal challenge. Brazil’s Porto Alegre took this idea somewhat further – it tries to facilitate 50000 people meetings to take charge of whether government and big organisations are keeping their main sustainability promises at the level of each organisation’s greatest purpose. I don’t know the Brazilian case intimately (so I’d love to hear any local feedback). I do know Harrison Owen enough to be able to ask him who is the most sincere facilitator in each of the 80+ countries that <B>open</B> <B>space</B> is already used; and if its never been used in your country we can ask him who is nearest both geographically and in cultural spirit. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=5 PTSIZE=16 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Main Tent Beyond Branding <A HREF="http://groupjazz.gjhost.com/gj/swebsock/0000747/0493376/GJ14/main/viewitem.cml?53+14+377+4+0+x+1+x#here">Item 4: What happens if we lose the battle of the internet as being for the people and of the people?</A></B></B> <BR>
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<B>15-FEB-2004 07:25 <A HREF="http://groupjazz.gjhost.com/gj/swebsock/0000747/0493376/GJ14/main/me.cml?53+14+x+x+x+x+x+x+chrismacrae">chris macrae</A> </B>While this is only one tributary thread of Beyond Branding, I thought it might be the biggest continuing conversation for groupjazz as a world centre of virtual community practice; so I propose we keep a parallel <B>space</B> of edited highlights in the cafe which can then continue on past February <B>... </B> 2) If this model of making the most of your unique talents is correct, then it becomes clear that tv as the defining mass media of the 2nd half of the 20th century didnt always help us. It took away social capital <B>spaces</B> where community forms and people participate actively; it dumbed us down gratifying our senses - hey what did you actually learn from watching the superbowl all last sunday? (Please note I am not against the occasional frivolity but what about people who spend most of tgheir leisure time watching tv? are they being robbed of making the communal most of their talents?) 3) In this context, consider <A HREF="http://www.cluetrain.com/">http://www.cluetrain.com</A> which gave us 95 pretty good clues of how our roles as consumers could be more valuable if we made the best of the internet. Its sad to me how much that <B>open</B> conversation has waned. Anyway, perhaps we then need a cluetrain 2 of how to make the most of working and learning - maybe a lot of that is already emerging in eg in the research of last month's host Bill Jensen. One last intro. Seen in this light we might expect mass media will do everything it can to destroy the freedom of speech of internet-driven communities. Was this why CBS refused to carry a tv spot on the superbowl from www.moveon.org (one of the most powerfuil social uses of the internet to date) on an issue the world happens to believe Americans should be debating: Is being in so much international debt sustainable for your chiildren's futures? (Please dont sidetrack this thread's purpose with political left's or right's- in fact I believe these are 'largely' irrelevant to the deep democratic issue of how do we make the most of the freedoms and joy of the internet, as I will try to demonstrate in later contributions </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=5 PTSIZE=16 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Main Tent Beyond Branding <A HREF="http://groupjazz.gjhost.com/gj/swebsock/0000747/0493376/GJ14/main/viewitem.cml?53+14+377+5+0+x+1+x#here">Item 5: What is Beyond Branding about?</A></B></B> <BR>
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<B><A HREF="http://groupjazz.gjhost.com/gj/swebsock/0000747/0493376/GJ14/main/viewitem.cml?53+14+377+5+4+x+1+x#here">5:4)</A> 16-FEB-2004 13:47 <A HREF="http://groupjazz.gjhost.com/gj/swebsock/0000747/0493376/GJ14/main/me.cml?53+14+x+x+x+x+x+x+chrismacrae">chris macrae</A> </B>This could also be of interest in many ways: <BR>
-those who love the idea of <B>open</B> community and agency of the net <BR>
-those who feel that the greatest way you get a community to make its next great leap forward beyond potential conflicts of different stakeholder demands is to <B>Open</B> <B>Space</B> a gathering celebrating the presence of the diversity of stakeholders and building value from the respect of understanding each different truly held viewpoint <BR>
-those who feel that global brands are neither just the extreme of being for their ownesrs or for their customers but often mediating the livelihood of 50000 employees and the society of every nation that the global brand reaches - in that last aspect, a global brand's greatest purpose could be multicultural harmony and breaking down discrimination; I used to know a fem multinationals whose corporate brands acted liked that, but that purpose is now long been eroded by people who measure efficiency in much shorter and less human terms <B><A HREF="http://groupjazz.gjhost.com/gj/swebsock/0000747/0493376/GJ14/main/viewitem.cml?53+14+377+5+5+x+1+x#here">5:5)</A> 16-FEB-2004 13:47 <A HREF="http://groupjazz.gjhost.com/gj/swebsock/0000747/0493376/GJ14/main/me.cml?53+14+x+x+x+x+x+x+chrismacrae">chris macrae</A> </B>This could also be of interest in many ways: <BR>
-those who love the idea of <B>open</B> community and agency of the net <BR>
-those who feel that the greatest way you get a community to make its next great leap forward beyond potential conflicts of different stakeholder demands is to <B>Open</B> <B>Space</B> <BR>
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