<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">Larry--<BR>
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I appreciate your point that Open Space transcends AND includes hierarchy in organizations. My current client has raised very interesting and thoughtful questions about hierarchy and Open Space and their appropriate uses during this project.<BR>
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They are in the midst of an ambitious building project, and will combine the staffs from two separate offices in the new building. I had wondered if the urge to "command and control" would take over as the workload increased and tensions rose. What I am seeing instead is that team meetings continue to be democratic. The group identifies the needed tasks, and whoever has passion (or needed experience) for a particular task takes responsibility. Groups that started working on a particular issue in the Open Space, right after grounbreaking for the building, are continuing to work on many important issues, gathering input and making recommendations or decisions. New work groups are developing their own procedures for how they will work together.<BR>
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The place where I am seeing control is the appropriate place, the project management for the building construction and the move. They are doing a good job of tracking all the many elements of the project and seeing that the elements come together in the appropriate sequence. But I am not seeing people move to making unilateral decisions or to giving orders, under the stress of time pressures. My sense is that they may be somewhere "between stages" in the model you mentioned. And that the pressures of the physical transition have not caused much regression to an earlier way of being together.<BR>
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Very interesting!<BR>
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Joelle</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"></FONT></HTML>
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