<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3333ff">i recently had a similar experience.</font></span><div><br><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,255);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">wish i could be there ... </span><div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3333ff">greetings from the philippines !</font></span></div><div><font color="#3333ff"><br></font></div><div><font color="#3333ff">luchie<br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Linda Stevenson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stevenson8899@msn.com" target="_blank">stevenson8899@msn.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><p><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><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"> </span></p></div><div><p><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><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"> </span></p></div><div><ul type="disc"><li><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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>
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