<div dir="ltr">Yes, Harrison, you have written it all before, and each time you do so here, it must be me, it gets clearer and clearer - like the focus is tighter and tighter, and ah the paradox, we move our logics from "either/or" to "both/and" and then "neither/nor" or oneness or logic of the whole. Ah life.! Skye<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Harrison Owen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net" target="_blank">hhowen@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Anna -- Sounds like a marvelous new adventure. Doubtless you will find some<br>
great stories and thinking in the writings of Marv Weisbord and Eric Trist.<br>
Eric was before my time, and Marv is an old friend. But I think you may have<br>
(your "guinea pig may have) two separate interests here: Participatory<br>
Leadership and Wisdom of the Whole. Of course they could be the same thing,<br>
but typically people like Trist and Weisbord understood Leadership to be<br>
more or less equated with the Formal Leadership of an organization, and the<br>
effort was to help them (The Leaders) share their task. But there was never<br>
any question as to Who the Leader(s) was.<br>
<br>
"Wisdom of the Whole," seems to me, come from a very different place.<br>
Leadership in that situation is understood to be a function or a role that<br>
may in fact be performed by anybody and (over time) everybody. And<br>
Leadership is never to be limited to, or equated with the Formal Leaders.<br>
Many people would see this as a confusing, perhaps revolutionary thought.<br>
After all things could get out of hand, confused, to say nothing of chaotic.<br>
Might we say, Out of Control!<br>
<br>
This, of course, is precisely the problem (opportunity) lots of folks have<br>
with Open Space, especially when they just hear about it. After all, nobody<br>
is in charge. Everybody is -- And that, I think is real Participatory<br>
Leadership. Leadership is not something to be shared, if only because it is<br>
the possession and birthright of everybody. No need for a share of something<br>
you already possess!<br>
<br>
To me, this takes us to the heart of the lesson from Open Space. Sure it is<br>
a nice meeting methodology, a "tool" for group work, a "process, if you<br>
will... but that is just the beginning, and a very small beginning. At the<br>
end of the day it (OS) is an experience of, and training in real leadership<br>
-- What I have called Authentic Leadership.<br>
<br>
And of course, I just happen to have written a book that explains all this:<br>
"Wave Rider: Leadership for High Performance in a Transforming World" :-)<br>
<br>
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Dear all,<br>
<br>
I am just experimenting with a leadership coaching program.<br>
And my guinea pig wants more information about participatory leadership -<br>
wisdom of the whole… I remember all the stories about Toyota and other car<br>
industry that changed their productivity by involving all workers.<br>
<br>
Can you link me with short and profound articles?<br>
Or links?<br>
<br>
Would be very much appreciated!<br>
<br>
much Love from Berlin,<br>
AC*<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b>Skye Hirst, PhD</b><br></div>President - The Autognomics Institute<br></div><div><i>Conversations in the Ways of Life-itself</i><br></div><div>
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