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embed'><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:red'>You have REALLY DOINE IT, Tova!!! <span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Magnificient</span></span><span class=GramE>.</span>
And in English too </span></font><font color=red face=Wingdings><span
style='font-family:Wingdings;mso-ascii-font-family:Arial;mso-hansi-font-family:
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Wingdings'><span style='mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings'>J</span></span></font><font
color=red face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'> <span
class=GramE>Will</span> take some digestion. I look forward to a slow read.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color:red;mso-no-proof:yes'>Harrison Owen</span></font><font color=red><span
dir=LTR style='color:red;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center dir=RTL style='text-align:center'><st1:Street><st1:address><font
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color=red><span dir=LTR style='color:red;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=red face=Arial><span dir=LTR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:red;mso-no-proof:yes'>Maryland</span></font></st1:State><font size=2
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color:red;mso-no-proof:yes'> </span></font><st1:PostalCode><font
size=2 color=red face=Arial><span dir=LTR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:red;mso-no-proof:yes'>20845</span></font></st1:PostalCode></st1:place><font
color=red><span dir=LTR style='color:red;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=red face=Arial><span dir=LTR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:red;mso-no-proof:yes'>Phone 301-365-2093</span></font><font color=red><span
dir=LTR style='color:red;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center dir=RTL style='text-align:center'></X-SIGSEP><font
size=3 color=red face="Times New Roman"><span dir=LTR style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:red;mso-no-proof:yes'><!--StartFragment --><X-SIGSEP>Open Space Training <a
href="http://www.openspaceworld.com/" eudora=autourl>www.openspaceworld.com</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=red face="Times New Roman"><span dir=LTR style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:red;mso-no-proof:yes'>Open Space Institute <a
href="http://www.openspaceworld.org" eudora=autourl>www.openspaceworld.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=red face="Times New Roman"><span dir=LTR style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:red;mso-no-proof:yes'>Personal website <a
href="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm" eudora=autourl>http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm</a></span></font><font
color=blue><span dir=LTR style='color:blue;mso-no-proof:yes'><br>
<a href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a></span></font><font
color=red><span dir=LTR style='color:red;mso-no-proof:yes'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:red;mso-no-proof:yes'>To subscribe, unsubscribe,
change your options, view the archives Visit: <a
href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html" eudora=autourl>http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</a></span></font><span
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<p class=MsoNormal dir=RTL style='margin-right:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
dir=LTR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> </span></font><st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span dir=LTR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun'>OSLIST</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span dir=LTR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun'> [mailto:</span></font><st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span dir=LTR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun'>OSLIST</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span dir=LTR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun'>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>averbuch<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><st1:date
Month="2" Day="27" Year="2004"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span dir=LTR
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun'>Friday,
February 27, 2004</span></font></st1:date><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
dir=LTR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun'> </span></font><st1:time Hour="4" Minute="15"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
dir=LTR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun'>4:15 AM</span></font></st1:time><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
dir=LTR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-fareast-font-family:
SimSun'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> </span></font><st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span dir=LTR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun'>OSLIST</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span dir=LTR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun'>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> the story of a two day OS
with a division of an Israeli high-tech global company</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=RTL style='margin-right:.5in'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span dir=LTR style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dear oslisters'<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Remember my call
for help how to pick 150 out of 750?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I want to start with thanking, Gerard Muller,
Chris Corrigan, Harrison, Joelle and all of you' and here is my debt of story
to you :<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.5in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
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padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>150 out of 750 – continued:
the story of a two day OS with a division of an Israeli hi</span></font></b><st1:PersonName><b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>gh</span></font></b></st1:PersonName><b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>-tech global
company<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:
center;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Tova Averbuch<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.5in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>As I was
preparing for Practice Of Peace conference on Whidbey island on November 2003 I
got a phone call inviting me to consider working with a division of an Israeli
hi</span></font><st1:PersonName><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>gh</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>-tech global company " to
promote motivation" after very hard three years in this business-market in
general and for those people in particular. Since I do not do "promote
motivation" work I was trying to look for the picture of the desired
future the person talking to me had in mind and we both became more and more
interested in exploring working together. We met a month later, when I was back
from the </span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>US</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>. They were eager and impatient to
move on. I was in the beginning.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.5in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'>The way I generally view my work with organizations is as short term
interventions with the intention of transformation</span></font></b><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>. OS gathering is a very powerful
and preferred practice I incorporate in this process and the most visible one.
Because open space is about inviting and about choosing it is very important
for me to provide it both in my very being and in doing, so… after meeting the
HR people and the CEO and the management we moved from "promoting
motivation" to " creation of a division we would like to work in and
be happy to belong to.." They were ready to move on. My gut was that it
was too soon. My clear sense was that 'what OS actually is' didn't seem to get
throu</span></font><st1:PersonName><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:
Arial'>gh</span></font></st1:PersonName><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'> and their everyday culture was 180 degrees deferent.
Another barrier was that this management who, until recently, was a management
of subsidiary company now became management of a division, much more dependent
on the mother company feeling limited in what they can do by themselves and for
themselves. Fallowing my senses I insisted on the regular process we use:
having a diagonal preparatory committee as means of still questioning if OS is
what they really choose and distilling the unique way to do about it.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Meet again with the management team in an OS
format (this I usually do not do) to learn more and explore their issues and
challenges as managers/management in this process and particular situation. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.5in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In the <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>preparatory comity</span></b> people were very
reserved, skeptical, cautious and cynical. Sooner then latter – I was in the
middle of a battle field with this or that person from senior management in
front of 20 other people (stirring or steering? committee). Anxiety of letting
go was very hi</span></font><st1:PersonName><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>gh</span></font></st1:PersonName><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>, fear to raise expectations and fail them was
enormous so ideas like: "let the preparatory committee be the OS event"
or: "we can guide it a little, who said we have to do it exactly the way
you say?" were offered along the process. Let me tell you I was defiantly
bruised in this battle. For those of you who know me personally this will not
come as a surprise that I wished I was not so direct and I wished I could shut
up …neither the client nor I were sure we can make it together or that we are a
good fit but thanks god we stayed together long enou</span></font><st1:PersonName><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>gh</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>. Slowly but surly too things
emerged very clearly:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.75in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;
tab-stops:list .75in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=3 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:
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size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>No way a management can go to OS 'to see and get
ideas' and then do whatever they wish, regardless (not because I say so but
because throu</span></font><st1:PersonName><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>gh</span></font></st1:PersonName><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'> the preparatory committee and the talk about trust,
management commitment etc. it became very clear)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.75in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;
tab-stops:list .75in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=3 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:
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size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>One can confront hi</span></font><st1:PersonName><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>gh</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> rank and stay alive (bruised but
alive): maybe everyone can choose to make a difference, after all.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.25in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>People from
preparatory committee decided they go for OS and "dare hope". They
created a remarkable process of invitation formulation and talks to inform
everyone in the deviation (750 people) in 2-3 days (50-70 every time with a
member of the committee who is not 'the boss' of those who listen and question
– it was the first time I had people create such a process). After the talk was
over the person who was in charge beautifully informed everyone else that had
still to go, of what were the challenges of the meeting and how was it
resolved. It was so lovely to be on their list and witness these little tips
and care. When they decided the OS will be for 150 people I had asked Avner to
join in with me and had the pleasure to learn again how beautiful and fun it is
to work together! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.5in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'>170 people from all departments registered and 180 showed up on the
morning of the first day</span></font></b><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>. How shall I sum it up in "bottom Line"
language? (We maid a joke out of how they will report to those who chose not to
come): "In the beginning people were very skeptical!" ye' but what
happened at the end? – "they were not skeptical!"…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.5in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.5in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I opened the
space asking them to do something revolutionary, something they do not usually
do – to take 3 breaths… (thank you Gerard, Harrison and Brigitt for building in
me the courage to actually dare start this very way with 180 people, technical
people, mainly men…) Like taking a lid off a steaming pot 50 out of the 180
people, who were seating very quietly (too quietly) for the first half an hour,
jumped out off their chairs to create their agenda for 4 breakout sessions that
day and one the next day. Wonderful energy of finding one another again as
people, after three years of survival mode on the personal and organizational
level, they began to shade prickly porcupine skin and try on new, softer modes.
44 conversations, 44 summaries attended with care by the evening and collected
as a book of proceedings from 'everything-culture' to 'working patterns' in
general and in specific. Trust… open, candid, genuine words were spoken and
heard. One participant put it beautifully: 'we had told them every thing before
this event. We talk it in the corridors, in 'round table talks', everywhere! So
what difference will it make'? Another, standing by, said: (this could be a day
of grace) 'you know what the definition of a psychologist is: a person to whom
you pay for hearing all the things your wife has been telling you for so long
…, maybe today it will sink in'.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.5in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.5in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'>Evening news</span></font></b><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:
Arial'> with a shift: transparent, open to all public. Evening decision meeting
together (some traps we glided throu</span></font><st1:PersonName><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>gh</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>) also added a pillar of trust and
transparency.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.5in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Most amazing
was the depth of wisdom on <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>day two</span></b>
(10 more groups added their conversation proceedings in writing and orally (in
10 minutes, all together!). All an all, 54 active and vibrant ideas merged into
16 <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>implementation groups</span></b> who had
their first session in the afternoon. That was just blooming energies – seeding
and harvesting work together. Being the action-biased people they are – they
came up with wonderful ideas, fun, appreciation, recognition, and programs and
it is on its way….!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Up in the sky Avner
and I drove home<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Knowing this is a very
unique time in this industry, they are in a turning point, seems they chose to
turn.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Last one:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.5in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>This morning
the CEO called saying "thank you, you know I don't speak much and I am
very cynical but it seems to genuinely matter for many people; the sales man's
singing, in the closing circle, "you and I will change the world" (a
Hebrew song, like 'Imagine') was moving even for me. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.5in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>We may have
some challenges in the coming six months; we shall need a little your help from
you during this 'crossing the minefield'. And- if you need recommendation I
will be glad to do it. I didn't believe this phone call; he hardly ever had the
time (or preference) to talk one sentence to me…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.5in;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thank you for
hanging there with me until now, there was a lot of learning on my side and on
Avner's side (he even came up with some computer and logistics break throu</span></font><st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>gh</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>). A little
bird told me Avner is going to say more…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thank you all again<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>With much love<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Tova<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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text-justify:inter-ideograph;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-no-proof:yes'>Tova
Averbuch </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=HE dir=RTL style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;mso-no-proof:yes'>èåáä</span></font><span dir=LTR></span><font size=2
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style='mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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