<div dir="ltr">Purchased and received my copy a week ago (lovely and special). Started to read and plan to sink into it over the holidays. How special when one of our own shares her wisdom in the form of a book, with the collaboration and support of a colleague and friend.  Bravo Tova AND Peggy!<div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Suzanne Daigle<br>Open Space Facilitator<br><br>Cell: <span>203-722-2009</span><br><br><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 5:23 PM Peggy Holman via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Hi my OS list friends,<br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><br></div><div>I want to “out” Tova Averbuch, who has given us all a gift. She recently published the brilliant <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Initiating-Inviting-Generative-Change-Organizations/dp/1777184649/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=tova+averbuch&qid=1639689988&sprefix=tova+av,aps,113&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Initiating and Inviting Generative Change: Entry and Contracting for Emergent Outcomes in Results Driven Organizations</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Full disclosure: I’m biased because I had the joy and honor of being a sounding board as the book was born. It gave me a ring side seat to witnessing emerge the best framing of how to work with leaders and organizations seeking change that I’ve seen. Tova provides stories and a jaw-droppingly elegant framework that is simplicity on the other side of complexity. It captures a nuanced, multi-dimensional view of consulting work for introducing and integrating self-organization into an organization.</div><div><br></div><div>In the process, she also drops gems, like offering the most cogent, myth-busting explanation of that oh-so-frustrating complaint that so many of us hear: yes, it was a great meeting but nothing happened afterwards.  I’ll just leave that as a teaser to say if you want to know more, get the book. (It’s in a section called Endings and outcomes in Chapter 3. Beginnings and Endings.)</div><div><br></div><div>Give yourself or a friend a gift for the new year.</div><div><br></div><div>Best of the season,</div><div>Peggy</div><div><br></div>
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<div dir="auto" style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div>________________________________</div>Peggy Holman<br>Co-founder<br>Journalism That Matters<br>Bellevue, WA  98006<br>206-948-0432<br><a href="http://www.journalismthatmatters.org/" target="_blank">www.journalismthatmatters.org</a><br><a href="http://www.peggyholman.com" target="_blank">www.peggyholman.com</a><br>Twitter: @peggyholman<br>JTM Twitter: @JTMStream<br><br>Enjoy the award winning <a href="http://www.engagingemergence.com/" target="_blank">Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity</a><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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