ah, yes, there IS the urgency. Let's not be sleepwalkers. Thanks so much for this,
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Harrison Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > For the last several years I have been asking for, pleading for, begging > for an extended and deep conversation which starts with the premise that > this is a self organizing world, beginning, middle and end. Living fully > and productively in such a world requires that we think some new, and (some > would say) radical and heretical thoughts about management, leadership, the > nature of organization, power...and much more. Good old OST gives us a good > experimental base, but that is just the beginning. I think. And while some > might see OST as a useful "tool" for the enhancement of organizations as we > know them, in my view OST is a wonderful Trojan Horse, which, in a not so > subtle manner, blows those understandings and ways of working quite out of > the water. It clears some space for the new conversations to take place, > while simultaneously offering some useful contributions to the content of > those conversations. Some of these conversations are now taking place, > thanks to our good friends from AGILE and SCRUM, and more participants are > show up in some rather odd places. Our friend Claudia Gross (of Cairo) > brought the following to my attention, and with great pleasure I pay it > forward. Thank you Claudia. > > > > ****************************************** > > > > "My second observation concerns hotspots of energy. What makes 2,500 of > the world's elite business, government and thought leaders in civil society > travel to this remote and (otherwise) sleepy small town in Switzerland? My > sense is that they come to participate in a distributed field of energy > hotspots. What fuels these hotspots? It's not the big staged events. It's > not the tightly structured panels and speeches by heavy hitters and big > names. There's a field of human interconnectivity that flows through the > corridors, lounges, coffee bars, dinner tables, evening parties, and > shuttle rides. It's like an inverted or flipped event: the formal public > events are just an occasion to get together, a backdrop; but the real > event, the real encounters and learning, happens in the fluid and mostly > self-organizing space outside the meeting rooms. > > " > > - Otto Scharmer in this article: > > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/otto-scharmer/davos-mindfulness-hotspot_b_4671062.html?utm_hp_ref=email_share > > > > > > > > "In other words, just through the experience of self-organising, people > begin to question the need for traditional leaders, even if they aren't > initially doing particularly radical things with their newfound freedom." > > > > taken from the guide to Constructive Subversion by Liam Barrington-Bush > > > > http://roarmag.org/2013/12/constructive-subversive-guide-change/ > > > > > > > > Harrison Owen > > 7808 River Falls Dr. > > Potomac, MD 20854 > > USA > > > > 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) > > Camden, Maine 04843 > > > > Phone 301-365-2093 > > (summer) 207-763-3261 > > > > www.openspaceworld.com <http://www.openspaceworld.com%20> > > www.ho-image.com <http://www.ho-image.com%20> (Personal Website) > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of > OSLIST Go to: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > -- *Skye Hirst, PhD* President - The Autognomics Institute *Conversations in the Ways of Life-itself* www.autognomics.org @autognomics New Phone Number: 207-593-8074
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