I had wondered why it was so quiet on this list recently so read to the end of your email, Harrison, and got my answer. Even though I did not participate often I do miss the rich conversation amongst other participants that popped up in my OS mail box every day when I checked my messages. As you say Harrison, when it's over it's over, but then again whoever's here is the right people. I only open space formally once a year and only for 3.5 hours and it is a special time for me and for most of the participants so far. I enjoyed reading your story about to 'Strategic plan' or not to Strategic plan. I spent may years railing against the wishes of planners but have spent the past 10 years in a governance role and somewhere along the way resigned myself to accepting sound bites of reality that make a strategic plan and the the fallout of such plans that have to be evaluated and audited ad infinitum. I have even found myself studying these documents for anomalies and inconsistencies because perish the thought that a strategic plan would have anything in it that did not align with the organisations stated culture and vision. Happily this is my last term in governance. I look forward to knowing the outcome of your wonderful suggestion Harrison and will follow develops here if you choose to stay. Regards Anne
> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:19:59 -0400 > From: hho...@verizon.net > Subject: [OSLIST] temporary OFF THE OSLIST -- and on to the future! > To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > > As they say -- When it is over it is over. But just think about all that new > space! For myself, I have just had a marvelous lunch with the Dean of a > Seminary who is thinking about using Open Space for their strategic Planning > efforts. My suggestion was -- Don't do it! At least don't do it if all you > want is another Strategic Plan. I told him that if he opened space for all > who cared about his community you might just find out that those who cared > were a lot more (people) than he had thought, that they cared about a whole > mess of interesting new things, and finally that if they really had the > space/time in which to express and share their "caring" -- the community > could only grow and evolve. But be very careful for things could definitely > get interesting, robust, rich, out of control... Not exactly according to > The Plan, Strategic or otherwise. > > Harrison > > Harrison Owen > 7808 River Falls Dr. > Potomac, MD 20854 > USA > Phone 301-365-2093 > www.openspaceworld.com > www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > -----Original Message----- > From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Michael M > Pannwitz > Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:00 PM > To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > Subject: Re: help: temporary OFF THE OSLIST > > Dear Brendan, > there is a rumour that everybody except you and me followed my > instructions and thats the result! 628 deletions in 24 hours. > Greetings from Berlin and see you in May at the WOSonOS > mmp > > Brendan McKeague schrieb: > > HI folks - testing - this is the last message I've received from > > OSLIST....I'm checking to see if I'm missing out??? cheers Brendan > > > > On 21/03/2010, at 12:19 AM, Michael M Pannwitz wrote: > > > >> Dear Gijs, I tried to simulate signing off the OSLIST myself. > >> First, I went to > >>> http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > > > * * ========================================================== > > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To > > subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of > > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > > > > -- > Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg > Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany > ++49-30-772 8000 > mmpa...@boscop.org > www.boscop.org > > > Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 398 resident Open > Space Workers in 67 countries working in a total of 139 countries worldwide > Have a look: > www.openspaceworldmap.org > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist _________________________________________________________________ Looking for a place to manage all your online stuff? Download the new Windows Live http://download.live.com * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
