Harrison said, But I also suspect that while killing themselves implementing a plan for a future that never quite happened the way they thought it might -- they missed out noticing some super-extraordinary opportunities that would have been infinitely better than what they were planning on.
Comments: As I think about your comment, strategic planning, emerging order, and OS, I remember comments/quotes from two sources that I think are significant: 1) Joseph Campbell who said that if someone can tell you their life plan A,B,C, it probably means they are living someone elses life. If we are living our own, there is always an element of mystery, uncertainty, and the unknown. (very paraphrased, but hopefully, you get the drift) 2) The second quote is from Carl Jung responding to a letter her received. I think somewhere in this quote and the other paraphrase by Campbell, there is some deep wisdom and implication about the way we or at least I have thought of Strategic Planning and the implications OS and emerging order has brought to the surface. I wonder about the implication for strategic planning, or at least the way in which we think about the future and plan for it, as they relate to these statements. Jungwrites, Your questions are unanswerable because you want to know how one ought to live. One lives as one can. There is no single, definite way for the individual (or organizations) which is prescribed for him/her or would be the proper one. . . But if you want to go your individual way, it is the way you make for yourself, which is never prescribed, which you do not know in advance, and which simply comes into being of itself when you put one foot in front of the other. If you always do the next thing that needs to be done, you will go most sure footedly along the path prescribed by your unconscious. Then it is naturally no help at all to speculate about how you ought to live (or organize or manage). And then you know, too, that you cannot know it, but quietly do the next and most necessary thing. So long as you think you dont yet know what this is, you still have too much money (and time) to spend in useless speculation. . . I think somewhere in these quotes, there is some deep wisdom and implication about the way we, or at least I, have thought about Strategic Planning (planning for the future), and that OS and emerging order has brought to the surface. I continue to explore how to hold the unknowing in context of the anxious need of some to know? Maybe it is my need to know that I need to own? Maybe the question is, How do we hold the space in an extremly toxic system, especially on a system that has prided itself in knowing? Thanks, Craig <br><br><br>----Original Message Follows----<br>From: Harrison Owen <hho...@comcast.net><br>Reply-To: OSLIST <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu><br>To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu<br>Subject: Re: Craig<br>Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 14:29:13 -0400<br><br>That sounds like one of my overly broad generalizations, which like all<br>generalizations is false. I am sure that folks have tried like hell to<br>implement their strategic plans. I am equally sure that some parts fell in<br>line. But I also suspect that while killing themselves implementing a plan<br>for a future that never quite happened the way they thought it might -- they<br>missed out noticing some super-extraordinary opportunities that would have<br>been infinitely better than what they were planning on. Or something.<br><br> Harrison<br><br>Harrison Owen<br>7808 River Falls Drive<br>Potomac, Maryland 20845<br>Phone 301-365-2093<br><br>Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com<br>Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org<br>Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm<br>osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu<br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit:<br>http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html<br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Craig<br>Gilliam<br>Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 9:40 AM<br>To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu<br>Subject: Craig<br><br>Harrison and all:<br><br>I am still exploring Strategic Planning, OS, and emerging order. I guess I<br>am a slow learner, but there is something around this topic that intrigues<br>me, but I am not hearing consciously what the "it" is that has my attention<br>yet.<br><br>Harrison, someone mentioned or reminded my, I don't quiet remember, that you<br>stated that no strategic plan is ever implemented. Would you make some<br>futher comments on that?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Craig<br><br>*<br>*<br>==========================================================<br>osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu<br>------------------------------<br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,<br>view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu:<br>http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html<br><br>To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs:<br>http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist<br><br>*<br>*<br>==========================================================<br>osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu<br>------------------------------<br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,<br>view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu:<br>http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html<br><br>To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs:<br>http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist<br> * * ========================================================== 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
