<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Thanks John, great. I read your notes and this one raised a question:</div><div><br></div><div>"for necessary decisions (e.g. directing group resources), 'consensus' by
veto is better than democratic decision-making by majority vote"</div><div><br></div><div>What do you/the book mean by "consensus by veto" here?</div><div><br></div><div>Thomas</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Oct 16, 2014, at 3:51 AM, John Baxter via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Hello Wave Riders</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">I've just finished reading Swarmwise, the tactical manual for organising community like a Pirate (i.e. Sweden's Pirate Party).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Open Space methods are threaded through it, both overtly and implicitly. I thought it was an excellent vindication of the hunch that Open Space can be applied in very specific ways to processes much bigger than single events.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">I did have an initial reaction to how strong the influence of the individual leader-champion is. But I came to the conclusion that sort of leadership fits the given objectives, and is no different than the sponsor setting the topic in OST.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">So a heads up, you may have the same averse reaction to ego-centric language that I did... but please forgive it in order to see the wisdom within.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Recommended reading for all Wave Riders: <a href="http://falkvinge.net/2013/02/14/swarmwise-the-tactical-manual-to-changing-the-world-chapter-one/">Swarmwise</a>.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Also if of interest, <a href="http://www.evernote.com/shard/s133/sh/265720ee-aa87-4377-9508-d191d48a966a/3ad0177a6c8434e45420dba77f54ff61">my notes</a> (<i>not a permalink</i>)</div><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Cheers</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><font color="#663300" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><b><i>John Baxter</i></b></font></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><i>CoCreate Adelaide Facilitator, Director of Realise consultancy</i></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><a href="http://cocreateadl.com/localgov%E2%80%8B" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">CoCreateADL.com</a> | <a href="http://www.jsbaxter.com.au/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">jsbaxter.com.au</a></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><font color="#444444" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">0405 447 829</font><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);display:inline"> | </div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">@</span><a href="http://twitter.com/jsbaxter_" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif" target="_blank">jsbaxter_</a></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><br></div></div></div></div>
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