Chris, Judging from my personal experience, the only way to become comfy with mess is to experience repeatedly the great outcomes that are achieved when one has been willing to work one's way through the mess. So imho the only tip is "create more experiences". Comfort with mess is another one of those things that cannot be learned in a book or by listening to someone trying to convince you how desirable messes are. You have to survive it to believe it!
Henri -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of chris macrae Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 12:00 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: Muddling Through Are there any specific tips on helping the traditional management mind feel comfy with mess? I was at a circle hosted by Meg Wheatley, where she said that she is only truly confident that a project is getting anywhere real if it enters all involved into a messy stage (the very opposite of the way all business cases appear to be written up as proceeding) As a result of the circle, advising on how to make management happy with entering into mess is one of my main areas of work, but its odd how hard it seems to be to collect tips together into one summary that we can agree with * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
