yes, i'm sure this is true. i shouldn't have said it like that. didn't mean to imply the manual was to blame. was just shaking my head and grinning to see ost and bureaucratic in the same breath. and glad to see it travelling in this manual, too. thanks,m <br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Cliodhna Mulhern <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cliodhna@flowstone.org.uk">cliodhna@flowstone.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="">Michael<div><br></div><div>I think it is the writer of the article who thinks the name is bureaucratic-sounding. Certainly the Transition manual does not take that view...it recommends OS to all transition towns...</div>
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<div>Skype : cliodhnamulhern</div><div><br></div><div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div>On 20 Apr 2009, at 16:29, Michael Herman wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="h5">found this reference a bit shocking... when's the last time you heard ost described as "bureaucratic"????<br clear="all">
<br>this from page two of the article, as posted online...<br><i><br>The Transition Handbook reads like an imaginative take on a corporate-management text. It recommends techniques for building consensus, from bureaucratic-sounding protocols like Open Space Technology to an exercise in which people decorate a potato like a superhero. “The Transition model,” the founder of one English Transition Town explained to me, “provides a structure, a foundation for organizing.” And along with Transition’s emphasis on hopefulness over fear, this rigorous playbook seems to set it apart from earlier grass-roots crusades.</i><br>
<br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/magazine/19town-t.html?pagewanted=2" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/magazine/19town-t.html?pagewanted=2</a><br><br>maybe we already had some talk here about transition town stuff? wonder what this manual might have done to make ost sound bureaucratic.<br>
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