From: Uwe Weissflog [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 6:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Causing Trouble
Dear Harrison, what you say resonates with my experience and my heart. After numerous Open Space events in high-tech businesses and universities I have come to similar conclusions. Humberto Maturana's says in one of his books: "... but creating and managing are basically different. I co-create, by consciously living in the Now, making life more harmoniously - without enslaving other people". But this, apparently is the dilemma we face when opening the space: the self-organising and co-creating power of people becomes obvious and collides with the desire of some who want have power over people. I had cases, where after very successful Open Space events (for example one, which resulted in 3 patents) higher management simply stopped it because the structure did not fit the "normal way of life" in the company - what a waste of possibilities. I'm now very careful when and how to use Open Space - sometimes it seems better to say no - for the sake of the people involved. -- Uwe Weissflog Pathway Guidance - Europe(TM), GbR www.pathwayguidance.eu [email protected] Rinnengärten 1 D-34516 Vöhl-Marienhagen, Germany +49 5635 99 11 97 (fon) +49 5635 99 39 34 (fax) +49 175 521 76 56 (mobile) * * ========================================================== [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
