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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi, Dan,<BR> <BR>Although there was a time in my life when I would not even say the word "spiritual," I would now say that OST is effective because self-organization is effective, and that self-organization is definitely a group spiritual practice!<BR> <BR>Linda<BR> <BR><br> <BR><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:40:30 -0400<br>From: dan@newtechusa.net<br>To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org<br>Subject: Re: [OSList] OST / Gaming<br><br>
Jenifer,<br>
<br>
<br>
Yes, and if you feel claustrophobic *reading* about Agile, let's
imagine how claustrophobic the people inside these 'agile'
organizations feel...<br>
<br>
...when they are told by an entirely well-meaning authority,<br>
<br>
that they <b>must</b> "do" something, and even "be"
something...entirely <i>unfamilar</i>...without their explicit <u>consent</u>.<br>
<br>
<br>
Is this or is this not the definition of a closed space? <br>
<br>
And finally, my favorite question: Is OST actually a group-spiritual
practice?<br>
<br>
Dan<br>
<br>
<br>
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<a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://newtechusa.net/agile/spirit/" target="_blank">http://newtechusa.net/agile/spirit/</a><br>
<em><strong>We all want rapid and lasting Agile adoptions.</strong>
</em>The Open Agile Adoption technique (OAA) can help. The OAA
technique is drawing deeply from the book SPIRIT by Harrison Owen.
It’s an amazing and even essential book for any person who is
serious about achieving a rapid and lasting Agile adoption. In a
very real sense the book SPIRIT by Harrison Owen, first published in
1986, is the first (and perhaps the only) book written on how to
achieve a rapid and lasting Agile adoption.
<blockquote>
"...I have written this book for friends and colleagues, known
and unknown, who find themselves in the midst of a transforming
world, and are resolved to look beneath the surface to the
underlying source of change. This source, which has become
manifest in the form and structure of our organizations, I call
Spirit." – Harrison Owen, Prologue, SPIRIT: Development and
Transformation in Organizations. (Circa 1986)<BR>
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<br>
<a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.OpenAgileAdoption.com" target="_blank">www.OpenAgileAdoption.com</a><br>
<a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.infoq.com/articles/open-agile-adoption-1" target="_blank">http://www.infoq.com/articles/open-agile-adoption-1</a><br>
<a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.infoq.com/articles/open-agile-adoption-2" target="_blank">http://www.infoq.com/articles/open-agile-adoption-2</a><br>
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<div class="ecxmoz-cite-prefix">On 10/22/13 8:14 AM, Jenifer Toksvig
wrote:<br>
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<font size="2"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Harrison,
you said:<br>
<br>
>> ... our conversation always seems to have (must
have?) some frame of reference with certain metaphors and
images. [...] It is not so much about right or wrong but
rather capacity to communicate. <<<br>
<br>
It’s all about Story, yes, absolutely. I was just saying to
Dan in an email that I had never heard of Agile until this
conversation, so I went to read all about it... and then had
to stop reading about it because, as a story, it makes me
feel claustrophobic. Especially as a story that is being
linked to OST.<br>
<br>
OST is my guide in so many ways. It’s my comparison story:
the thing against which I find myself measuring life stuff.<br>
<br>
- because it’s not a story. Oddly, I think I made that
strong connection with OST because it seems to me that it is
just how things are, rather than how anyone might want to
say things are. Which is not that odd at all, actually, now
I come to think about it.<br>
<br>
Although I am not in any way religious, perhaps those who
are feel the same way: that their belief system is not a
story, but the core truth of the world. It seems strange to
me that they wouldn’t challenge it to make sure it isn’t a
story in disguise, though. I challenge OST every day.<br>
<br>
In fact, maybe that’s what I mean by ‘comparison’. I don’t
measure life against it, so much as measure it against life,
and I am continuously delighted to find that it is simply a
description of how life happens, nothing more and nothing
less.<br>
<br>
How wonderful, how refreshing to find a true *description*
in a world full of takes and truths.<br>
<br>
When I write stories, I think the characters already exist
in the place of potential, and all they do is choose me to
be their conduit onto the page; I’m the right conduit for a
specific few. I am not at all surprised that OST chose you.
Thank you for being open to being chosen, and for staying
open when you recognised it for what it was.<br>
<br>
Jen x<br>
<br>
<font color="#808080"><b>Jenifer Toksvig<br>
</b><a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.acompletelossforwords.com" target="_blank">www.acompletelossforwords.com</a><br>
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<b>The Copenhagen Interpretation<br>
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