<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">HI all, <div><br></div><div>Slightly off topic, maybe, but I'd be interested in your thoughts. HO says (copied below) we are self-organizing top to bottom, beginning to end. </div><div><br></div><div>So how does one handle in a community garden the one person who consistently doesn't act in the best interests of the community but only insists on her perspective? Flouting agreements, signed contracts.. etc. etc. I think the answer is in total transparency? That the folks who knew this was going on didn't broadcast it and make it apparent to everyone else? </div><div><br></div><div>Of course this is relevant to anytime you have a group of people doing something together: teamwork, project management... </div><div><br></div><div>I often think of the adage "One bad apple spoils the barrel" .. I wonder if there are versions of this is German, French, Spanish, Swedish, Hebrew... ? Unlike in Open Space the gardeners can't pick up and move their gardens to another space.... (though I do fear some are opting out which will eventually kill the garden) </div><div><br></div><div>Your thoughts? </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks! </div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On May 6, 2013, at 8:56 AM, Harrison Owen <<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">hhowen@verizon.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">We are, for better or worse, self organizing systems, top to bottom, beginning to end. And it remains true that organizing a self organizing system is not only an oxymoron, but futile and destructive.</span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>