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<p>Greetings Fellow Humans!</p>
<p>On a recent weekend, I had the wonderful honor of inviting up to
5 friends up to Harrison's house in Maine, to discuss all things
OST. <br>
</p>
<p>And it was really, really fun. I thought about "who to invite?"
for a very long time, and carefully selected some truly great
people for the invitation: Jon Jorgensen (West coast OpenSpace
Agility guy,) Mark Sheffield (OpenSpace Agility HANDBOOK
co-author,) Stuart Turner (OpenSpace Agility teacher and Scrum
Alliance CST from Singapore,) Salah Elliethy (OpenSpace Agility
teacher and Agile coach in DC,) and Todd Kromann (OpenSpace
Agility and the OST guy who has arranged over-- get this-- 300 OST
events inside WALMART since 2014). <br>
</p>
<p>And finally, the day arrived. And there we were all there, all of
a sudden. Out on the porch with Harrison. Enjoying the lake.
Chatting with Harrison. About everything. And the whole thing was
very surreal. <br>
</p>
<p>And I mostly kept my mouth shut, in service to maximizing the
time everyone else got with Harrison that day. Stuart, after all,
came all the way from Singapore! Jon came all the way from
California. Mark came from North Carolina. Salah came from DC.
Todd came all the way from Arkansas. <br>
</p>
<p>So I just did my best to observe, and stay real quiet. And I was
doing OK ...<br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>...but the discussions were very triggering. To say the least!
And I had to stifle myself several times. <br>
</p>
<p>And then: I did have this one persistent, burning question keep
coming up for me. And I was definitely going to ASK it...<br>
</p>
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<p>So I just waited till there a good long while, till there was a
good long pause in all the interactions. <br>
</p>
<p>It was just the 7 of us. And after a long series of question and
answers, back and forth, it finally did get real quiet.<br>
</p>
<p>And the moment arrived. <br>
</p>
<p>And right there I popped the question, into the silence...</p>
<p> <br>
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"...Harrison, I have a question... AND THIS IS IT: </b><br>
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<p><font size="+1"><b><br>
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<p><font size="+1"><b>Is Open Space Technology SUBVERSIVE to
illegitimate authority?"</b></font></p>
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<p>And Harrison, without any hesitation, goes: <font size="+1"><b>"(chuckle...)
...Abso-lutely...that's the whole POINT!"</b></font></p>
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<p>Wow.<br>
</p>
<p>Who likes the idea that OST is designed to subvert illegitimate
authority? <br>
</p>
<p>Who doesn't?<br>
</p>
<p>Is this subversive quality of OST a bug...or a feature?<br>
</p>
<br>
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
Daniel Mezick<br>
Culture Strategist. Author. Keynoter.<br>
(203) 915 7248.
<a href="http://www.DanielMezick.com/"> Bio.</a>
<a href="http://www.NewTechUSA.net/blog/">Blog.</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/DanielMezick">Twitter.</a>
<br>
Book: <a href="http://theculturegame.com/">The Culture Game.</a>
<br>
Book: <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/OpenSpace-Agility-Handbook-Daniel-Mezick/dp/0984875336">The
OpenSpace Agility Handbook.</a>
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