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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">A postscript to this event report:<br>
<br>
I got a voice mail last night from one of the participants. She
said that several of her cohorts and she had decided to use a
"pop-up" store in downtown to share store space together. Without
the help of the OST Saturday, she said, "we never would have
figured it out."<br>
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:- Doug. Germann
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PS: a pop-up store is a presently vacant store front that the City has arranged to make available to start ups for a few
months or so; thus the stores "pop up," run for a while, and perhaps gestate a continuing lively business in town.
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On 04/27/2013 09:59 PM, doug wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:517C828E.9000209@footprintsinthewind.com"
type="cite">HO--
<br>
<br>
Beautiful!
<br>
<br>
:- Doug.
<br>
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On 04/27/2013 08:43 PM, Harrison Owen wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">When an Open Space really flies time
periods are irrelevant, and the length
<br>
is a matter of perception and convenience. Under the best of
circumstances,
<br>
nobody notices, nobody cares -- they just fly! And that is
where/when/how we
<br>
should all be, I think. It is not a "process," "tool," "method."
It is
<br>
simply us be fully what we are...human! Love it!!
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Dear Doug,
<br>
I love your report.
<br>
Actually its reports like yours that make my day, or night.
<br>
And bringing good food seems a perfect sign of great management,
supportive
<br>
community, shared leadership and, of course, Vision. The eagle,
bear, mouse
<br>
and deer all in place.
<br>
While they had a productive time and observed "when its over,
its over", I
<br>
suspect that things would even get better if "faculty and
advisors"
<br>
would not stay out but get in... and some more of the "community
people
<br>
bankers and business leaders" joined (were invited?).
<br>
I have experienced groups that seemed not to need the time
available in the
<br>
groups but spent the time not in the groups in amazing ways
(started a new
<br>
venture)... afterwards I was glad I did not intervene and
thinking on this I
<br>
decided not to interpret all this stuff, much too complex and
maybe none of
<br>
my business, and instead let selforganisation do its stuff...
and stick to
<br>
the announced schedule.
<br>
I wonder why you say its "another one for the books".
<br>
To me it appears to be unprecedented, unique, probably not
exactly
<br>
reproducable, a wonder.
<br>
Lets have more of them.
<br>
Greetings from Berlin
<br>
mmp
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On 27.04.2013 23:59, doug wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Friends--
<br>
<br>
Report on a half-day OST in Northern Indiana, held today:
<br>
<br>
A local women's college has a program to help low-income women
become
<br>
entrepreneurs. It runs 6 weeks and has as faculty many
community
<br>
people, bankers and business leaders. I convinced them from
the start
<br>
that OST should be an integral part of the curriculum. This
spring was
<br>
the 4th class. This spring we had two classes running
concurrently,
<br>
one meets in the evening, one during the day. Today was the
first time
<br>
both classes had met each other.
<br>
<br>
We gathered at 8:30, scheduled the opening for 9:00 and
actually
<br>
started at about 9:10. Village marketplace was done by 9:40.
There was
<br>
so much good food they brought to share that it was 8:57
before they
<br>
gathered for their first groups! We scheduled to run to 1:00.
So we
<br>
did 3 sessions of 1 hour each, with the closing circle at
12:40.
<br>
<br>
There were 21 of the 23 students there, and there were 4
faculty and
<br>
advisor folks too, a total of 25. The faculty and advisor
people
<br>
stayed out of the sessions for the most part.
<br>
<br>
There was a healthy amount of bumble-beeing and butterflying,
lots of
<br>
banter and laughter.
<br>
<br>
14 topics were posted, and they elected to combine 3 into one
session.
<br>
Theme: "Issues and Opportunities in Our Businesses, Our
Lives." Topics
<br>
included:
<br>
Managing business risk
<br>
How do we sell our products?
<br>
A name for my business
<br>
Juggling home, family & business
<br>
How do I connect with people
<br>
Finding a business location
<br>
The three that were combined: Funding for the future; How do
we invest
<br>
in our business?; Connecting with business/financial partners
Ideas?
<br>
Marketing...outside the box!
<br>
Stepping out
<br>
Having a business at home, or opening a store?
<br>
<br>
What I have learned from these folks is the shorter sessions
(1 hour)
<br>
work better for them. Perhaps their needs and questions are
more
<br>
discrete at this stage in their entrepreneurial adventure
(many have
<br>
not actually started their businesses, they are just learning
about
<br>
business plans and payroll taxes and the like). Maybe they are
still
<br>
unsure about themselves and not sure even what questions to
ask-maybe
<br>
the questions (or the answers) get deeper and have more
permutations
<br>
after they have actually been doing their businesses for
awhile (I
<br>
have also been doing retreats for graduates of this course
with longer
<br>
sessions and a day-long format, and they sustain the
conversations for
<br>
</blockquote>
longer times).
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Not sure why shorter sessions would
serve them better, but I saw
<br>
groups breaking up before the 60 minutes was up at least
twice, maybe
<br>
three times, and at the end, the conversations seemed to be
running
<br>
down so I went up to them after about 50 minutes and asked if
they
<br>
were done and wanted to move into closing early, and they said
yes.
<br>
<br>
A lot of emotion in the closing circle--even passing of
tissues!
<br>
<br>
Another one for the books. Of course it worked.
<br>
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