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<div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>For almost twenty years, I have been ready to bring the experience of intentional self-organization via Open Space to organizations and communities across the globe. And as Harrison has pointed out from the beginning, trying to sell this is like trying to teach a pig to sing: the pig doesn't like it, and it sounds terrible! From my experience over the years, Harrison's insight was accurate.</span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>However, perhaps because the more prescriptive interventions alone are not enough in these complex times and/or frustration is building, there is more readiness to try new approaches, even the simplicity and non-prescriptive self-organizing approach of Open Space (what people perceive before hand as foreign and a waste of time, but is actually what they already know how to do in order to create the most effective and efficient results). There is a growing heart-felt ache to experience authentic and adaptive leadership and the corresponding benefits.<br> <br>Thanks to Michele Norris, a member of the WOSonOS Global Host team in Florida, from whom I received this excerpted video clip of the 2011 World Economic Forum in Davos featuring the new young global shapers, the millennials: <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0hJ8JesQDPAN1ZHN3UtZHJOUnc/edit?pli=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 207);">https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0hJ8JesQDPAN1ZHN3UtZHJOUnc/edit?pli=1</span></a> which includes the following compelling comments on leadership:</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> </span></p></div><div><ul type="disc"><li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>We're so effectively connected and are not needing hierarchies.</span><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'></span></li><li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>We're incredibly passionate and not afraid to fail.</span><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'></span></li><li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>It's important to collaborate with both the young and the old.</span><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'></span></li><li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Values include be open, interconnectivity, equity, empowerment, interconnectivity, respect, honesty, and authenticity.</span><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'></span></li><li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Leadership is defined as the role where you facilitate a team of people for creating the best results (not about having a solution at the beginning but creating the environment for the best people in your group to ultimately achieve the most cohesive answer.)</span><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'></span></li><li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Leadership should be more inclusive and collaborative and take in the recommendations of others.</span><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'></span></li><li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Leadership is all about a culture which is incredibly supported by every team member available to call anytime.</span><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'></span></li><li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Leaders can bring out the talents of any person in any situation which is so, so supportive.</span><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'></span></li><li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Leadership inspiration and wisdom can be learned from the older generations.<br>Leader is anyone who can allow people to do more and do better than any one can do on their own.</span><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'></span></li><li class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Transparency in leadership and communicating values are more important than popularity.</span><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'></span></li></ul></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'><br><br></span><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>These young millennials are screaming Open Space! They are ready to experience leadership of the self-organizing kind, and ready to collaborate with the old. I find our theme for this year's WOSonOS in Florida very appropriate: The World Is Waiting - Are We Ready?</span><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'><br> <br></span><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Hope to see you there,</span><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'><br></span><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Linda</span><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'></span></p> </div></body>
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