Both Michael Herman and I have blogged occasionally about qualities of the Obama campaign that felt something like an open space organization. In this link I share a piece by a campaign volunteer, Ginger Lapid-Bogda, who is a longtime OD consultant. One long snip below. (This was some months ago, in the heat of the primary campaign.)
http://tellygraft.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/means-and-ends/ "It is such a bottom-up system, essentially driven by the vision of what this country can be, much more than being centered solely around Obama, although his approach is deeply shared. It is an amazing example of a vision and principle-driven self managing structure and system in which everyone does whatever is needed. And what is needed can change every hour, yet nothing feels unfocused or chaotic. It is truly a self-organizing system. The big office provides some guidelines, a few protocols, some materials, a few suggested tactics that are highly strategic, but people in this office — and it is just one of many throughout the country — just figure out what to do and then do it amazingly…." blessings Jeff Aitken San Francisco (cold foggy morning) ________________________________ > Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:32:54 +0400 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Barack Obama team using OS. How about that? > To: [email protected] > > I knew, that it will be the answer, Michael. It is not OS, of course. But > here they trying to do smth different from others, they want to hear people, > instead of saying them what to do, that s what I m trying to say)). May be > someone from US can offer to provide OS for this election campaighn. > We used OS for election campaighns several times in Russia, and it was always > very usefull...for candidates, for partyes, for comunity. > Thank you. > > > Yours sincerely, > Pavel Tsarkov > Business Open Space Communication Agency > Managing Director > > Mob.+7-926-296-62-74 > Website: www.jordantravel.ru > Skype: pavel_tsarkov _________________________________________________________________ Get Windows Live and get whatever you need, wherever you are. Start here. http://www.windowslive.com/default.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Home_082008 * * ========================================================== [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
