<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<div><br></div><div>And most of the time I lurk. Your email.. yes, isn't it awful when we can see something but are powerless to do anything about it. </div><div><br></div><div>So: Why do you care so much? What does this association do for you that suggests it shouldn't die? </div><div>Maybe you are being called to go and create something better! </div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Jun 23, 2013, at 6:05 PM, Barry Owen <<a href="mailto:barryo@comcast.net">barryo@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="">Hi Folks,</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">I haven't spoken here in a while . . . here goes . . . </div><div><br></div><div>I've gotta vent for a moment. I'm a member of an association which is literally on the brink of extinction because their entire source of income evaporated due to 2 things - The economic downturn . . . and the advent of new technology and crafty competitors who have figured out how to "give for free" the very service (Continuing Education) this association has (for years) controlled locally as its primary income.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There are MANY members who have great ideas (including me) of creative ways to shift with the new environment (adapt) and survive, but the Leadership has created an iron wall of protection for the way they've always done things.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've offered - suggested - written "white papers" - Sat on their board of Directors to be a voice . . . but the "Leadership" chooses to be blind and deaf.</div><div><br></div><div>
The most recent meeting I attended was sad indeed as the leader spoke for 45 minutes about all of the doom and gloom . . . and dutifully had a "reason" that every new suggestion that surfaced could not work . . . Most of it centered around not wanting to violate "current policy"</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm at the point of realizing that my efforts are for naught and that my best course of action very well may be to do nothing . . . and let it die.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe when the death nears, the current Leaders will leave, and we can breathe new life into whatever remains.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is case study on a simple truth:</div><div><br></div><div>We cannot "SELL" Open Space Technology to Leaders in denial that their personal need to control will likely be the death of their organization.</div>
<div><br></div><div>True?</div></div>
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