<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">Harrison wrote:<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">"If Open Space had evolved as other such approaches seem to have evolved -<BR>
after 20 years we would have massive accretions and added complexities all<BR>
contained in thick manuals of detailed instructions."<BR>
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One need look no further than what is happening to the Six Sigma movement in Lean Thinking. We are getting black belts, green belts, puce belts, and belt belts. We are getting 'certifications'; I was recently asked to help develop a certification of practice for Six Sigma, which I impolitely refused and wrote a long, scathing letter about the stupidity of doing so. Haven't heard back, strangely enough. LOL. Don't really expect to since the organization, to which I belong, is one of the grand daddies of the improvement movement. I'm sure they don't want to hear contervailing ideas to what they have so grandly planned. <BR>
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It reminds me of the old joke about the Devil and a human being, walking down the road observing someone, just a bit further on, lean down, pick something up, shout "Eureka" and go running off down the road. The human asked the Devil what he had found. The Devil replied "He found truth." The human asked "Doesn't that bode ill for you?" "No," the Devil replied, "I'm going help him organize it."<BR>
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Well, fortunately, in the main, OS has not become "organized" in any accretive way. I haven't spotted any manuals thicker than Harrison's books on the subject. That's a </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><I>good </I></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">thing.<BR>
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Paul</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"></FONT></HTML>
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