Open spaced lunch-hours I think we "undersell" how having experienced one whole open space changes the way people if they have a choice convene all future meetings, now that we are well and truly into what Peter Drucker caleld the knowledge worker age
i am going to make hypothesis that at least the top people at google are not the ordinary big org leaders that are often part of the "confusion" block that the open space is politically innovaing everyone's way through. Our experience is that where someone whop people looked up to knows that a transformation goal is about resolving conflicts and system chnage then this process can work The leader with deep authority in an area of importance to the organisation annouces that a cofee-tabled size gatehring is being hosted on a specific innovation challenge, and asks the whole organsiation to help in finding who are the rihht people to be there The host defines the challenge in terms of conflict questions; then essentially people postit other questions or mini-session discussions they would want; these can be clustered while people are at the table; photo the output of the tabletop and put it up on an internal web; ... There's room for ad libbing a bit more what goes on at such a lunchour roundtable but already I suggest meetings just don't get hosted this way unless an organisation is open space experienced chris macrae http://openspaceraces.blogspot.com http://valueofweb.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.easynetdial.co.uk * * ========================================================== 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
