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It clears some space for the new conversations to take place, while simultaneously offering some useful contributions to the content of those conversations. Some of these conversations are now taking place, thanks to our good friends from AGILE and SCRUM, and more participants are show up in some rather odd places. Our friend Claudia Gross (of Cairo) brought the following to my attention, and with great pleasure I pay it forward. Thank you Claudia.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>******************************************<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.75pt'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>“My second observation concerns hotspots of energy. What makes 2,500 of the world's elite business, government and thought leaders in civil society travel to this remote and (otherwise) sleepy small town in Switzerland? My sense is that they come to participate in a distributed field of energy hotspots. What fuels these hotspots? It's not the big staged events. It's not the tightly structured panels and speeches by heavy hitters and big names. There's a field of human interconnectivity that flows through the corridors, lounges, coffee bars, dinner tables, evening parties, and shuttle rides. It's like an inverted or flipped event: the formal public events are just an occasion to get together, a backdrop; but the real event, the real encounters and learning, happens in the fluid and mostly self-organizing space outside the meeting rooms.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>" </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.75pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>- Otto Scharmer in this article:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/otto-scharmer/davos-mindfulness-hotspot_b_4671062.html?utm_hp_ref=email_share">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/otto-scharmer/davos-mindfulness-hotspot_b_4671062.html?utm_hp_ref=email_share</a><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>"</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#111111'>In other words, just through the experience of self-organising, people begin to question the need for traditional leaders, even if they aren’t initially doing particularly radical things with their newfound freedom."</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000099'>taken from the guide to Constructive Subversion by Liam Barrington-Bush<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://roarmag.org/2013/12/constructive-subversive-guide-change/">http://roarmag.org/2013/12/constructive-subversive-guide-change/</a><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Harrison Owen<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>7808 River Falls Dr.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Potomac, MD 20854<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Camden, Maine 04843<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Phone 301-365-2093<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(summer) 207-763-3261<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="www.openspaceworld.com%20">www.openspaceworld.com</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="www.ho-image.com%20">www.ho-image.com</a> (Personal Website)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>