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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dan,<br>
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Thank you for forwarding that interview. I've worked with your
interviewer Amr Elssamadisy before in Dr. Christopher Avery's
"Leadership Gift" program. Great to hear his voice. Thought he did
a great job bringing forward your insights.<br>
<br>
It's hard for me to express how deeply your thinking aligned with
what I see as the essence of Open Space, and what I feel emerging
in my own psyche and that in the collective when we spoke and I
got to be present at your session in Nashville at Agile 2013 last
month. I continue to find your material to be a critical piece in
helping bridge the Open Space and Agile communities - something
Peggy Holman called "Sister Communities" at the World Open Space
on Open Space in St. Petersburg back in May.<br>
<br>
I'd heard your thinking before and it continues to astound me the
relevance and power in getting these two communities to work
together.<br>
<br>
Open Space truly is the "secret sauce" making possible successful
Agile adoptions. The science behind this awareness goes deep. The
timing of it feels like perfection. You seem to be getting just
the right audiences to engage with this idea. And what you posted
earlier in terms of a framework for adoption involving
interspersed Open Space events to help promote agency and
engagement - very exciting. Very simple. Truly elegant. And
phrased in a way the holders of the bottom line can "get it".<br>
<br>
What's new about your stuff?<br>
<br>
Perhaps it's been mentioned before - but here are some points I
find most critical.<br>
<br>
1) The Mandate. Perhaps Open Space Technology came out of
Organizational Development (and Organizational Transformation).
But most attempts to transform the organization that I've seen
have been "rolled out". Kind of like a steam roller. It's
definitely mandated. You went into great depth in your Agile 2013
presentation how Mandated Agile goes fundamentally against the
values and principles in the Agile Manifesto. Open Space can help
us bring back the original thinking of the signatories of the
Agile Manifesto.<br>
<br>
2) Games and engagement. Jane McGonigal's book "Reality Is
Broken", and the whole arena of Gamification, has become a focal
point of driving home ideas from positive psychology, and is also
driving many huge wheels of industry (and dollars). Because
getting people excited about using your products is important.
Getting employees excited about contributing to your products -
also critical. But I'd never heard anyone describe Open Space
Technology as a beautifully designed game before. This perception
I think plays directly with the TOOL versus PHILOSOPHY debate in
our community.<br>
<br>
3) Agency. This might have been a significant idea as well in
Paolo Friere's book - "The Pedagogy of the Oppressed". Without
people feeling like they have some say in how they apply their
blood, sweat, and tears - engagement is not going to happen. Open
Space is a critical way to nurture agency in people.<br>
<br>
I'm so thankful that you've started posting on the OSList and I
look forward to how things unfold. From what I see you saying, and
how I see people are hearing you, it seems as if we're on target
for a much more explicit chapter in the relationship between the
Agile and Open Space "sister communities".<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
Harold<br>
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On 9/4/13 2:37 PM, Daniel Mezick wrote:<br>
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Here's a 16-minute video that explains the crisis of disengagement
in Agile adoptions, and how the time to act was yesterday, and how
Open Space can help...<br>
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href="http://www.infoq.com/interviews/dan-mezick-qcon-new-york-2013">http://www.infoq.com/interviews/dan-mezick-qcon-new-york-2013</a><br>
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