<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">The problem is that most of the folks “protesting” in Canada right now were in fact “sold on or bossed into accepting someone else's plans,” namely far right wing and conspiracy theory and dark money groups that are funding and cynically manipulating the truckers and others into participating in these protests. This was made clear by an interview on NPR yesterday with a woman who has been studying far right and white supremacist groups in Canada for a number of years. And those are not the people who are showing up to participate in some kind of open space event. They are just trying to create chaos and disrupt economic recovery. <div><div><br></div><div>John W<br><div><div><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from John's iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 13, 2022, at 12:42 PM, Tony Budak via OSList <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p>"<font class="text">First, when thinking about strategies for
organizational change, we need to remember: <b>Participation is
not a choice</b>. We have no choice but to invite people into
the process of rethinking, redesigning, restructuring the
organization. We ignore people's need to participate at our own
peril. If they're involved, they will create a future that
already has them in it. We won't have to engage in the
impossible and exhausting tasks of "selling" them the solution,
getting them "to enroll," or figuring out the incentives that
might bribe them into compliant behaviors. For the past fifty
years a great bit of wisdom has circulated in the field of
organizational behavior: People support what they create. In
observing how life organizes, we would restate this maxim as:
People <i>only</i> support what they create. Life insists on
its freedom to participate and can never be sold on or bossed
into accepting someone else's plans", <br>
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<p><font class="text">From: </font><br>
<font class="text"> <font class="text"><b> Bringing Life to
Organizational Change<br>
<i>Journal for Strategic Performance Measurement</i>,
April/May 1998<br>
Margaret J. Wheatley & Myron Kellner-Rogers</b></font></font></p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/12/2022 12:25 PM, Mark Carmel via
OSList wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">The protestors say, ...We stand for Freedom!...
What does Canada's leader stand for? Authoritarianism? Maybe
they will need to build a lot of prisons to lock up the
protestors. Or maybe the Leader should call Harrison Owen to
facilitate an Open Space Technology meeting for Canada and the
world to have a conversation. What do you think my brothers and
sisters?
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