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In a two day open space events, are 1.5 hour time-slots preferable to 1
hour slots? <br>
Let me know the 'right' answer please.... or maybe not!<br><br>
Brendan<br><br>
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At 10:49 PM 23/02/2006, you wrote:<br>
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Andrew:<br>
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I’ve also seen, on two occasions, a breakout group of about 100 (in a
5-600 person event.) These groups seem to get along just fine
even if it was a little hard for the outliers to hear. They both
went for 1.5 hours and a bit beyond with some, but not a lot, of
attrition.<br>
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We “know” that the ideal group discussion is with 8-12 people (from the
small group evidence). We know, from “Wisdom of Crowds” that
hundreds or thousands in aggregated decision making do much better than
the one “expert” (given the evidence). We really don’t “know” how
many people can be held together in “collective focus” – consciously or
unconsciously. 100 in a break out? 2000 in a OS event.
A country? ???? Being happy with not-knowing allows for wonderful
surprises.<br>
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OSonOSinOZ sounds like it was a great stimulus for thinking!<br>
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Larry<br>
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