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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Good on ya Michael!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Great stuff I loved the way you put it:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> when we look in to the usual rhetoric, I find that lots of folks just can't defend or explain it. often folks end up using the empty standards as if they were true.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>You have put very beautifully a phenomenon I experience also when dealing with people about open space. : this great fear that a new way will be ineffective while the old way is so ineffective, stale and smelly it's a dead moose! Open space is given these huge goals that unless they are met it is doomed and the dead moose is then dragged out, and venerated once again. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>I may be in a different situation from you in that I work as a facilitator within an org. and possibly I suffer from that thing of </FONT></P>
<P> <FONT SIZE=2>"a prophet is not without honor except in his own home"</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2>Jesus Christ</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I have thought about this phenomenon a great deal, as I live in an org and with the stench of dead moose all around! I think perhaps people are comfortable with the stink as long as they can hold onto their ego, power or control. When we as an org use less open formats for our meetings and gatherings I sub consciously go into a naughty school boy routine. I'm expected to sit passively and swallow what is going to happen. Perhaps, now I've sampled the sweet aroma of open space, I am yelling "open the bloody window I can't stand it any longer!"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>All the Best</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Mike Copeland</FONT>
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