i recently had a similar experience. wish i could be there ... greetings from the philippines !
luchie On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Linda Stevenson <[email protected]>wrote: > For almost twenty years, I have been ready to bring the experience of > intentional self-organization via Open Space to organizations and > communities across the globe. And as Harrison has pointed out from the > beginning, trying to sell this is like trying to teach a pig to sing: the > pig doesn't like it, and it sounds terrible! From my experience over the > years, Harrison's insight was accurate. > > However, perhaps because the more prescriptive interventions alone are not > enough in these complex times and/or frustration is building, there is more > readiness to try new approaches, even the simplicity and non-prescriptive > self-organizing approach of Open Space (what people perceive before hand as > foreign and a waste of time, but is actually what they already know how to > do in order to create the most effective and efficient results). There is a > growing heart-felt ache to experience authentic and adaptive leadership and > the corresponding benefits. > > Thanks to Michele Norris, a member of the WOSonOS Global Host team in > Florida, from whom I received this excerpted video clip of the 2011 World > Economic Forum in Davos featuring the new young global shapers, the > millennials: > https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0hJ8JesQDPAN1ZHN3UtZHJOUnc/edit?pli=1 > which includes the following compelling comments on leadership: > > > - We're so effectively connected and are not needing hierarchies. > - We're incredibly passionate and not afraid to fail. > - It's important to collaborate with both the young and the old. > - Values include be open, interconnectivity, equity, empowerment, > interconnectivity, respect, honesty, and authenticity. > - Leadership is defined as the role where you facilitate a team of > people for creating the best results (not about having a solution at the > beginning but creating the environment for the best people in your group to > ultimately achieve the most cohesive answer.) > - Leadership should be more inclusive and collaborative and take in > the recommendations of others. > - Leadership is all about a culture which is incredibly supported by > every team member available to call anytime. > - Leaders can bring out the talents of any person in any situation > which is so, so supportive. > - Leadership inspiration and wisdom can be learned from the older > generations. > Leader is anyone who can allow people to do more and do better than > any one can do on their own. > - Transparency in leadership and communicating values are more > important than popularity. > > > > These young millennials are screaming Open Space! They are ready to > experience leadership of the self-organizing kind, and ready to collaborate > with the old. I find our theme for this year's WOSonOS in Florida very > appropriate: The World Is Waiting - Are We Ready? > > Hope to see you there, > Linda > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > >
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