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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Uwe
Weissflog</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'> [mailto:Uwe.Weissflog@t-online.de] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Thursday, March
22, 2007</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>6:28 AM</span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>hhowen@verizon.net</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: Causing Trouble</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Dear </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Harrison</span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>,<br>
<br>
what you say resonates with my experience and my heart. After numerous Open
Space events in high-tech businesses and universities I have
come to similar conclusions. Humberto Maturana's says in one of his books:
"... but creating and managing are basically different. I co-create,
by consciously living in the Now, making life more harmoniously - without
enslaving other people". But this, apparently is the dilemma we face
when opening the space: the self-organising and co-creating power of
people becomes obvious and collides with the desire of some who
want have power over people.<br>
<br>
I had cases, where after very successful Open Space events (for example one,
which resulted in 3 patents) higher management simply stopped it because the
structure did not fit the "normal way of life" in the company - what
a waste of possibilities.<br>
<br>
I'm now very careful when and how to use Open Space - sometimes it seems better
to say no - for the sake of the people involved.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Uwe Weissflog<br>
Pathway Guidance - Europe(TM), GbR<br>
www.pathwayguidance.eu<br>
uwe.weissflog@pathwayguidance.eu<br>
Rinnengärten 1<br>
D-34516 </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Vöhl-Marienhagen</span></font><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>, </span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Germany</span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
+49 5635 99 11 97 (fon)<br>
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