<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have more experience operating in a self-organizing world than in OS - after all it is where I live all the time. <div><br></div><div>This holiday season, I am in a particularly reflectivce mode - wondering about the arcs and troughs of the last year and decade more intentionally than in years past. I haven't read Wave Rider yet, so I will respond to this from the perspecive of OS and what it teaches about wave riding. </div><div><br></div><div><div>OS holds a lesson for me riding waves of the larger world and maybe even universe. Any OS event can be seen as a microcosm of the larger world. Every day-to-day encounter adding up to one large OS. Interestingly, while it is easier to learn the principles of OS for an OS event, for me, it seems a more natural thing to apply those principles in a worldly or universal context than - perhaps this is because the illusion of control is easier to accept as real when less is going on. </div><div><br></div></div><div>I usually think of OS as a method for convening and talking about what matters most to the participants, and indeed, it can be that. But more importantly perhaps, it is also an invitation to take care of yourself and take responsibility for what you give and what you take, and let everyone else do the same. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks Raffi and Harrison for the questions. Happy 2010 to all. Lucy</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">Lucy Garrick</span></font><a href="http://www.northshoregroup.net/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; "></span></span></font></a></div><div><a href="http://www.northshoregroup.net/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">NorthShore Group</span></font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">Business/Organizational Consultant/Coach</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><a href="http://www.northshoregroup.net">http://www.northshoregroup.net</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">Ph: +1*206-335-5635</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">Time zone: PDT/GMT -7</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">Blog: </span></font><a href="http://northshoregroup.net/blog/index.html"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">Global Outlook From The North Shore</span></font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">Twitter: </span></font><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><a href="http://twitter.com/NewsAboutChange">NewsAboutChange</a></span></font></span></div></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Dec 31, 2009, at 6:19 AM, Harrison Owen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Raffi asked some provocative questions about Wave Riding -- and I don't know that I have the answers, but I do know a good question when I see one. 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