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Me with Gabriela Galambvari, Stratis Karras and Prof. Nigel Roome, measured Organizational Learning in an Embassy and we found that due to their information-safety standards their OL capacity was significantly compromised.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am sorry we didn’t have time to publish the research but I am happy to share the analysis and/or the raw data with anybody that is interested to learn more about this case study. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Warm greetings and best wishes,</div><div class="">Anthi</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i class=""><b class="">Anthi Theiopoulou</b></i></span></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i class=""><b class="">MSc International Management</b></i></span></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b class=""> </b></span></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b class="" style="font-size: 11px;"><i class="">CEO &Principal Researcher</i></b><i class="" style="font-size: 11px;">, <b class="">Organizational Learning Self Evaluation Tool </b>(</i><font color="#011686" class=""><b class="">OLSET</b></font><i class="" style="font-size: 11px;"><b class=""> Ltd</b>)</i></span></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i class="">Innovation Warehouse, </i></span><font face="Times New Roman" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11px;"><i class="">1 E Poultry Avenue London EC1A 9PT United Kingdom</i></span></font><i class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;">, </i><span class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(2, 30, 170);"><i class=""><a href="http://www.olset.org/" id="LPlnk224748" class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;">www.olset.org</a>, <a href="http://www.olset.co.uk" class="">www.olset.co.uk</a></i></span><i class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </i></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b class=""><i class="">President</i></b><i class="">, <b class="">Hellenic Society for Organizational Learning</b> (</i><font color="#011686" class=""><b class="">SoL Greece </b></font><i class=""><b class="">NGO</b>)</i></span></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i class="">Od. 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Thank you!</span></div></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 21 Aug 2018, at 13:25, David Osborne via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Quoting from Harrison in <i class="">The Practice of Peace.</i><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stuart Kaufman's original work which focused on biological systems aka the emergence of life on earth describes five pre-conditions for open space, one of which is "<i class="">A safe, nutrient-rich environment." </i>Harrison goes on to describe the equivalent for Human systems as <i class="">"some kind of safety and support in the overall environment."</i></div></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class="">I interpret safety as a psychologically safe space where individuals can act and speak ( take risks, share diverse views etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Can it be too safe to support self-organization?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">David</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class=""><b style="font-size: 12.8px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-family:Avenir-Roman;color:rgb(88,88,91)" class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">David R. 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<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 2:13 AM, Bhavesh Patel <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:bhavmail@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">bhavmail@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Curious to know what you mean by 'safety'?<br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 August 2018 at 07:49, David Osborne via OSList <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.<wbr class="">org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Greetings all, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have questions about safety related to self-organization I would love others thoughts on. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is it possible for an environment can be too safe to support self-organization? Can safety be at such a high level that it inhibits or slows down the self-organizing process?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm very interested to hear others perspectives.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best to all,</div><div class=""><br class="">David<br class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="m_4597001477005682267m_1426491034533240525gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class=""><b style="font-size: 12.8px; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-family:Avenir-Roman;color:rgb(88,88,91)" class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">David R. Osborne</span></span></b><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Avenir-Roman;color:rgb(127,153,171)" class="">Organization and Leadership Development</span></span></p><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span id="cid:F50CD739-0CB3-4057-980C-62D5983A9F83@hsd1.il.comcast.net."><CF_Logo_Full_3.png></span><font face="Avenir-Roman" color="#7f99ab" class=""><b style="font-size:11px" class=""><br class=""></b></font><span style="color:rgb(88,88,91);font-family:Avenir-Roman;font-size:10pt" class=""><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=6402+Arlington+Blvd.,+Suite+1120,+Falls+Church,+VA+22042&entry=gmail&source=g" class="">6402 Arlington Blvd., Suite 1120, Falls Church, VA 22042</a></span> <div class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Avenir-Roman;color:rgb(88,88,91)" class="">703-939-1777</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Avenir-Roman;color:rgb(152,191,193)" class=""> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Avenir-Black;color:rgb(152,191,193)" class=""> | </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Avenir-Black;color:rgb(234,123,50)" class=""> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Avenir-Roman;color:rgb(88,88,91)" class=""><a href="mailto:dosborne@change-fusion.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" class="">dosborne@ch<wbr class="">ange-fusion.com</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Avenir-Black;color:rgb(234,123,50)" class=""> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Avenir-Black;color:rgb(152,191,193)" class=""> | </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Avenir-Black;color:rgb(234,123,50)" class=""> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Avenir-Roman;color:rgb(88,88,91)" class=""><a href="http://change-fusion.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" class="">change-<wbr class="">fusion.com</a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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