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mso-fareast-language:PT">The best leaders value their words, and use them
sparingly. <br>
When she has accomplished her task, <br>
the people say, "Amazing: <br>
we did it, all by ourselves!" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of control. And - as Claudia noticed - discover the next (and different) steps...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Harrison Owen <hhowen@verizon.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> OSLIST <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, January 2, 2012 4:29 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [OSList] FW: Egypt, one more time!<br> </font> <br>
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--></style><div><div class="yiv1574216102WordSection1"><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal">This in from Claudia!</div><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: sans-serif; ">Khalil El-Masry facilitated a wonderful Open Space. For me it was great to see how he took the technology and made it his own: Have trained him and others a couple of weeks ago and now they just do it themselves, with their handwriting, their flavor. Although repeating myself: Am sooo proud of them and get so much energy out of their work. Have reached the moment where I thought "Wow, if they do it now themselves, what will you focus on next?" It's releasing to see the ball rolling and am curios what I will be my next steps.</span></div><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal">Claudia – it is always great when you work yourself out of a job. One more thing NOT to
do!</div><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal">Harrison</div><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal">Harrison Owen</div><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal">7808 River Falls Dr.</div><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal">Potomac, MD 20854</div><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal">USA</div><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal">189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)</div><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal">Camden, Maine 20854</div><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal">Phone 301-365-2093</div><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal">(summer) 207-763-3261</div><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1574216102MsoNormal"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.openspaceworld.com">www.openspaceworld.com</a></div><div
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