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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Harrison, thank you
for your ideas about right and wrong. It is about expectations, but also about
our benchmarks for performance. I think I understand what you are trying to
say. What happens is the only thing that could have happened. I agree, it’s
true. And that some control helps is paradoxically also true. We can’t
control the waves, but we can increase our skill to ride them. I think that is
why you share your wonderful stories about your experiences, and that is why learning
about technique of wave riding (from academic research or other practices) might
help too. For me those practices are part of the self-organizing world as
well, and they helped to bring us where we are now. Still leaves me
puzzled about your remark, wherein I sensed some regret, about the ignorance of
academics for 25 years of Open Space. I think that will change if some
researchers care and feel responsible. I do. Also part of the self-organizing
world. Will it make things better? I hope, that’s why we Open Space, isn’t
it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Tonnie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Van:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]
<b>Namens </b>Harrison Owen<br>
<b>Verzonden:</b> donderdag 3 december 2009 1:03<br>
<b>Aan:</b> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b>Onderwerp:</b> Re: [OSLIST] Open Space and academic research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:red'>Going “Wrong” is an interesting thing. My
“wrong” could be your “right” It all depends. So when I
hear about Open Spaces that go “wrong” I always wonder what the
expectations were. As for self-organizing systems – they always (in my
experience) try to “optimize.” That would be called
“search for fitness.” And in the great sea of life, everything
works out … but some of it can be quite painful. I think that comes with
the territory, and no small amount of the pain comes from the fact that things
did not work out the way we desired. Funny thing: The Cosmos was not created
for our pleasure and benefit, I think. </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:red'>Or put another way – I think self-organization always aims at
High Performance (by definition) – and some make it and others
don’t. Or at the very least, some do not perform as well as others
– which is how we derive our benchmarks for “High
Performance.” </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:red'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:red'>Could there be another way? Maybe. And for sure if the “Ruler
of the Cosmos (Him/her/It)” had consulted with us early on, doubtless we
could have come up with something better. But I am not sure about
“better.” Seems to me that for all the warts, pain, foibles,
weirdness, false starts, etc. – it is totally amazing that we are all
here 13.7 billion years from GO! – Albeit some of us are complaining
about how bad things are. Personally, and all evidence to the contrary –
I think it is wonderful!</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>-----Original
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<b>From:</b> OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tonnie
van der Zouwen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 02, 2009 9:42 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Open Space and academic research</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Harrison, </span><span
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>For sure, I’m
having fun doing my research. Talking to you and many other people who are
experimenting with Self Organizing systems for High Performance (an interesting
reframing of my Large Scale Interventions for sustainable change, to what
extend do we mean the same?). I really appreciate your sharing of insights and
experiences, the great gift of your books. Actually the experiment is repeated
many times, by many practioners, matching conditions and following procedures
(that is what I call interventions) for high performance results. My point is
that it doesn’t always bring high performance, and that things can go
wrong. We don’t talk about the ones that didn’t produce good
results in publications. To put the cat among the pigeons: If we want to
be taken seriously in the academic world, maybe the invitation should not only
be “repeat the experiment”, but also “come and review our
experiments, what performance did they bring and why?” Finding out how
the power of self organization can be utilized and assisted even better
or more widely. </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Tonnie</span><span
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Van:</span></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b>Namens </b>Harrison Owen<br>
<b>Verzonden:</b> woensdag 2 december 2009 13:26<br>
<b>Aan:</b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b>Onderwerp:</b> Re: [OSLIST] Open Space and academic research</span><span
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Hi Tonnie
– My experience for the last 25 years is that OS has been a marvelous
natural experiment that I just fell into. My hope would be that any and all
curious people (people with curiosity – which hopefully includes
academics</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;
color:red'>J</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:red'>) would have as much fun as I have. Truthfully, my interest in Open
Space is less focused on large group interventions, indeed any kind of
intervention, but rather on the function and power of self organizing systems
and the ways in which we might utilize and assist their gifts. </span><span
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'> </span><span
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>The message
of Wave Rider was not that Open Space creates High Performance (although I
think it does), but rather that High Performance is a function a well
performing Self Organizing system. Open Space (for me) became a critical (but
not only) part of the experimental environment in which I considered all that
business. You will notice that I set the book up as a report on that
experiment, detailing the experimental conditions, procedure, and results to
date. The invitation is to run the experiment for yourself. All the questions
you raise are totally valid and should you run the experiment I am sure you
will find your answers – which may or may not accord with the answers
(results) I found. But that is the nature and fun of a good experiment. So how
will you know? Just do it and find out. Have fun.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>From:</b> OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tonnie
van der Zouwen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 02, 2009 6:13 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Open Space and academic research</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'>Dear<span style='font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span> Harrison, <span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Yesterday I was
reading (almost) all emails on this list. Learned a lot again. What I kept
wandering about last evening is your remark about how little attention to OST
is paid so far in academic research and publications. Since I am doing research
on large scale interventions (Success factors and effects and a practical guide
for effective use of LSI) </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span
lang=EN-US>this triggered me: What research questions would you like to be
answered in academic research? </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span
lang=EN-US>What would you like OST to be compared with? Then I realized that
touches the question: How to see OST and what is it used for? In your book Wave
rider you give examples of OST as a method for creating high performance
systems. The practitioner in me reacts: Ok, I know it works, let’s do it.
The academic researcher in me sais: He, interesting, how do I know the high
performance system is there? How long will it last? What is the influence of
the length of the meeting? Does it ripple off, why/why not? Et cetera. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>We had two
conferences with researchers, practitioners and clients about my research on
success factors and effects of LSI. Thanks again Harrison for contributing to
the online conference. In the discussions, especially in the live conference on
September 17<sup>th</sup>, </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span
lang=EN-US>a wide gap showed between LSI practice and academic tradition. I
think that explains part of the relatively little attention in academic
research. Some practitioners say: “we don’t need evidence from
research, we already know it works”, or “research will never be
able to grasp the magic of ….” . While some </span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span
lang=EN-US>researchers say: “It is all self reported success from
founders and practitioners with an interest in a positive image”, or
“If you can’t conceptualize it you should try harder”.
Moreover, you have to work with sophisticated qualitative research methods to
do justice to complex situations and the richness of an intervention as OST. It
is my opinion most academic institutes still operate in a classic quantitative
or linear research tradition. They don’t want to burn their hands on what
they think wooly stuff, or they simply don’t know how to inquire complex
interventions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Another problem
with finding articles on</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span
lang=EN-US> research on OST is that the phenomenon is labeled with different
names. On the level of OST as a large group intervention, or as an interactive
method for change more literature is available. But you don’t see OST in
the title. I gathered a long list of references, so if you are interested let
me know. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Luckily, there
are also practitioners and researchers who see possibilities and added value in
academic research. Especially those who combine both activities. </span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>What would you
want from research?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span lang=EN-US>Tonnie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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