Hey there: A couple of thoughts...
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:57:18 -0500, Phil Culhane <pculh...@magma.ca> wrote: > > Don't you hate doing OS's in rooms where the tape doesn't seem to stick to > the wall, the > ceiling is too low, the coffee too cold and there's no windows? Don't you > wonder what the > ideal Open Space space might look like? Maybe Matt started from the OS > tenets, but took a > different step at some point? That said, when CGEY buys in, there > (theoretically) must be > something there. You would not believe the logsitical nightmares I've seen in my days doing OST. Somehow, sometimes though that little bit of extra effort to make do with we have got sends just the right message to a group of people. I'm all for comfy surroundings, but there's something about a hard chair that drives home the point that if you don't get up noithing will get done. Also, I have no doubt that there is something to DesignShop...I just wonder what it is and how it is different from OST. There is something to a participant saying that they got more done in a DesignShop day than they would have in six months, but it's not too hard to raise the bar on the general strategic planning and implementation standard. The real question would be how much MORE would get done in a three day OST rather than a DesignShop workshop. Or more to the point, how much LESS would be put on "to do" lists. How much of what gets done in DesignShop is stuff that really needed to get done? In OST, it seems to me, nothing happens unless it has to, I have yet to run and OST event in which people complained that they came out with too much or too little work to do. > > I find it fascinating to think of what an ideal OS environment might look > like. > > One of my questions about DesignShop is whether the participants own the > solution. > Knowledge Workers (scribes) copy/record everything and prepare it - so > there's a real > risk that participants won't see their own words in the final product. And > knowledge > workers/facilitators can and apparently do become active in discussions - > thereby > relieving participants of some of the responsibility. > I think this might be the point...responsibility. What does an organization look like after DesignShop vs after a good juicy OST? I note in Chapter 14 in Leaping the Abyss where Matt talks about running into entrenched structure at the other end of a DesignShop. For sure OST runs into this too...and right now some of us are working on a paper to look at how we might leverage the passion and responsibility in OST to move forward through the traditional processes of assessing and implementing outcomes. I thin the answer lies in supporting the responsibility of the emergent leaders. But Matt says "Structure wins every time." I think that might not be true. I think story can trump structure, and action speaks louder than words. Anyway, I'm still in the dark about what actually happens in DesignShop, so perhaps I'll wait for a real story or two to comment further. Chris ------------------------- CHRIS CORRIGAN Consultation - Facilitation Open Space Technology Weblog: http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot Site: http://www.chriscorrigan.com * * ========================================================== 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
