Hi Artur,
I actually found a reference in a book by Beverly Fletcher,
"Organization transformation theorists and practitioners: profiles and
themes" published in 1990 which I was able to cite in rewriting to
remove the questions in the article page - to give the time and
conference - Boston Regional ODN in the spring of 1982. It's an
interesting read as this part of the book is visible on Google Books
preview -
http://books.google.com/books?id=U79jGNETRKIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false.
I looked over the talk section of the Open Space wikipedia entry and I
think I agree with some of the comments there about the tone of the
article sounding too much like a promotion or advocacy of OST, and the
most helpful comment was that the article could use benefit from looking
at the format of the Wikipedia entry on Scrum. This seems like a lot
more rewriting is needed to help legitimize the article. Too much work
for me to do right now - but at least I answered those questions.
Harold
On 10/14/13 4:39 AM, Artur Silva wrote:
Harold: The idea of correcting the OST entry in the Wikipedia is very
valuable.
But, in what concerns the initial part with issues (In the early
1980s^[/when?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items>/]
, Harrison Owen wrote a paper on what he called "organization
transformation". He presented this paper at a traditional management
conference^[/which?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words>/] . It was
well enough received that a number of people^[/who?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words>/] urged
Owen to organize a conference to specifically address the issues and
opportunities he identified in his paper.) as there was not such
paper, but only a presentation, can't this be explained on the "talk
page" and propose that the all sentence be supressed?
Harrison: Even if you are not sure if you said that at the time, it is
still correct and I am sure that you wrote it now :-)
So can I quote this:
«I don’t know what Organization Transformation is, but I suspect that
it may be the successor to Organization Development, appropriate to
life in a transforming world.»?
Regards
Artur?
On Sunday, October 13, 2013 4:57 PM, Harrison Owen
<[email protected]> wrote:
OK – got a clue. I did make a presentation at a regional gathering of
the ODN in the early 80’s. Actually David Belle Isle and I did it
jointly. The title of our presentation was “Myth and Ritual as the
Ground for Organization Transformation.” There never really was a
paper, just some notes, and we just talked. I vaguely recall the last
remarks – which I made – “I don’t know what Organization
Transformation is, but I suspect that it may be the successor to
Organization Development, appropriate to life in a transforming
world.” Or something.
ho
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*From:*Harold Shinsato [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Sunday, October 13, 2013 10:43 AM
*To:* OSLIST; Harrison Owen
*Subject:* Original Harrison Owen paper on "Organization Transformation"?
Hey folks, an ongoing effort of many people on this list and of the
Open Space Institute U.S. has been to fix up the Wikipedia page.
http://wikipedia.org/Open_Space_Technology. It has had some of the
ugly warnings at the beginning removed, but there are still issues.
The opening of the current version of the wikipedia article cites a
paper Harrison Owen wrote at "a traditional management conference".
What was this paper and is it available anywhere?
When was it published?
What was the traditional management conference where it was published?
Thanks!
Harold
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