Having thought long and hard about what Michael has written, and also about some work I have been doing with large groups (60-80), I wonder about the idea of the 'inviting organisation'. My initial question was inviting to what. If the invitation is to DO and BE, then perhaps the primary step is explore self in order to work with what we do and be. This set me thinking that perhaps the successor to learning organisations is the 'identity organisation', where we get to discover who we are, and what value we bring to our organisations.
I feel comfortable with this concept, as it addresses the process of becoming inspirited. Perhaps you (anyone on the list) have some other thoughts on this. Cheers Bryan. **************************************************************************** ************** "For self is a sea boundless and measureless" - Kahlil Gibran Bryan Kidd HyPerformance Team Works Melbourne Australia [email protected] ---------- > From: Michael Herman > > 'how inviting is your org?' is what i come up with. what i'm suggesting in my > own writings these days is that the successor to the 'learning organization' is > the 'inviting organization' which operates in open space, but doesn't need the > name 'open space' any more. what's more, the coolest thing to me is that while > we must DO things at work, but we want to BE inspirited there, too... > 'inviting' is something we can do AND be, as people, managers, organizations, > whatever, anytime... and the result looks like open space everytime, with or > without the technology part. i'm now describing my work as a practice in > invitation and have started to post some things about this in the forums at > global chicago.
