At 06:35 PM 3/20/00 +1000, you wrote: >Dear Friends > >At a recent lunch with an OS colleague (with suitable liquid encoragement - >perhaps a little more than two martinis!) I described OS as an operating >system (like Microsoft Windows 98) in contrast to other useful techniques >(eg De Bono, scenario planning and the like) as high powered, focused >applications (like MS Word). ************************************ Given the crashing nature of win98 -- I am a little nervous with the analog. But the idea is a good one. Certainly folks have used all sorts of "interventions and processes (i&p)" in Open Space, but there is a worry and a caution. Some of these i&ps seem to close space down. I guess the real point is that you can do whatever you want, just don't infringe on the space of others. So any time I hear somebody saying, "Let's all do ______" I get quite nervous. Unless of course everybody really wants to do it. And then who am I to stand in their way. Good thinking!
Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 USA phone 301-469-9269 fax 301-983-9314 website www.mindspring.com/~owenhh Open Space Institute websites www.openspaceworld.org
