i love this question, meg. my short take: did you ever notice that OD is the opposite of DO?
my longer take is that openign space is fundamentally a practice and commitment on the part of leaders to be leaders of people in motion. and people in motion do all the things that happen in os... raising issues, drawing pictures, combining issues, experimenting with edges, jumping through them, asking the unspeakable, spearing the immortal, etc. ...but now i also notice that they almost never talk about complexity, self-organization, chaordic, etc. while they're busy doing their thing in os! hmmm.... m Meg Salter wrote: > I have a provocative (?!) question. How come OS never > makes it onto the Organizational Development radar > screen? I've just checked out the big OD conference in > Montreal this October, bringing in Fritjof Capra, Meg > Wheatley, and lots of folks talking about complex > adaptive, chaordic systems.... and how to create them > (what a non-sequitur that is!) > www.odnetwork.org/conf2002/index.htmlAnd Chris brought our > attention to a Plexus institute on complexity etc. with no > mention of OS. So the theory behind complexity and > self-organization is becoming quite popular. So why is it > that such a simple, widely practiced and successful > "approach" such as OS - which is self-organization in > action and has been talked/ written about as such (HO) - > never gets talked about? or simply ignored? Is it too > threatening? Is it hard to be a typical guru and do the > speaker circuit thing? Or is it just most of these folks > are doing the same old thing (you know - being the expert) > but speaking new language? Something in my gut is really > sticking on this one.........! Meg Salter MegaSpace > Consulting > 416/486-6660 > [email protected] > www.megaspaceconsulting.com -- Michael Herman 300 West North Avenue #1105 Chicago IL 60610 312-280-7838 voice 312-280-7837 fax http://www.michaelherman.com ...an invitation. * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
