Dear Craig Having written a book on strategic planning, which, by the way, led me to large group work because of the difficulty in cascading a top team's plan into an organisation where most people did not participate in making the plan, I still believe in the value of planning for the future.
For me, however, it has now become an issue of who does the planning and whose plan it is. Now we enter the area of participation and ownership and the imperative need to open the planning process by getting "the whole system into one room." Open Space is a very effective process to get people to discuss issues and propose actions with passion and responsibility, leading to commitment at the point of participation. Strategies naturally emerge from this work when people agree a way forward and commit enough energy to make things happen. Accordingly, it seems limiting to facilitate top teams to bond around an agreed future when such a powerful alternative exists. Regards Kerry Edinburgh * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
