Open Space Colleagues: I need the benefit of your thinking.
Let's suppose members (with passion and responsiblity) from two depts at a university (say A and B) are invited to come together to work on designing a new curriculum. The mindset of the dean is to extend genuine invitations to whomever wants to work on designing the new program. But further suppose that dept A wants to house the program after it's created. Dept A decides to stack the deck by sending all of its members to the joint project. Open Space is built on the premise of inviting people with passion and responsibility to step forward. My question is this: Can Open Space be sabotaged by organization politics (i.e., turf grabbing)? I would greatly appreciate your thinking on this question. Thank you. Dave Cox
