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Worldwide Open Space
There are a growing number of Open Space Technology
stories, tools and conversations showing up online. Here are
three good places to start exploring. (See also the individual
stories listed earlier in the "Open Space Outcomes"
section.)
Worldwide
Open Space Website/Portal - the
center of the Open Space Tech world, with links to stories, conversations
and resources offered by practitioners and websites around the
world. <http://www.openspaceworld.org>
H.
H. Owen & Company, Harrison
Owen's website has a number of articles and publications available.
<http://www.mindspring.com/~owenhh>
Michael Herman Associates,
Open Space Tech Resources Page offers a good beginning point,
including links to the H.H. Owen and Worldwide Open Space sites.
<http://www.globalchicago.net/mha/openspacetech.html>
Dalar
Associates, founded by Birgitt
Williams has been a leader in the unfolding of the spirit and
practice of Open Space Technology. Find a number of resources
and stories at their website. <http://www.openspacetechnology.com>
Fast Company Magazine
The Leader of the Future:
Harvard's Ronald Heifetz offers a short course on the future
of leadership.
by William C. Taylor
Ronald Heifetz -- called one of the world's
leading authorities on leadership -- is director of the Leadership
Education Project at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School
of Government, is a scholar, a teacher, and a consultant. His
course at Harvard, "Exercising Leadership," is legendary
for its popularity with students and for its impact on them.
His students (many of them in mid-career) include leaders from
all walks of life: business executives, generals, priests and
rabbis, politicians. His clients have included senior executives
at BellSouth, who brought him on to conduct a two-year program
on leadership in a fast-changing world, and the president of
Ecuador, who is struggling to lead that nation through tough
economic times.
What makes Heifetz's approach to leadership
so compelling is that he is so honest about what real leadership
demands. The book that rocketed him to prominence was called
Leadership Without Easy Answers (Belknap/Harvard University Press,
1994). The role of the leader is changing, Heifetz argues. The
new role is "to help people face reality and to mobilize
them to make change." And making change is painful: "Many
people have a 'smiley face' view of what it means to lead. They
get a rude awakening when they find themselves with a leadership
opportunity. Exercising leadership generates resistance -- and
pain. People are afraid that they will lose something that's
worthwhile. They're afraid that they're going to have to give
up something that they're comfortable with."
<http://www.fastcompany.com/online/25/heifetz.html>
Everything I Thought I Knew About Leadership Is Wrong
by Mort Meyerson, CEO Perot Systems
To get rich, do you have to be miserable?
To be successful, do you have to punish your customers? Tough
questions from a CEO who's smart enough to admit he doesn't have
all the answers.
In 1992 Ross Perot asked me if I would join
Perot Systems as CEO. It had been five years since he and I had
left EDS. I told him I would do it -- with the disclaimer that
I didn't know much about the current shape of the business. Ross
told me, "Just follow your nose."
That's what I did. It took me six months.
I visited with all the associates of Perot Systems and all of
our customers. Then I went back to Ross and told him, "Everything
I thought I knew about leadership is wrong."
<http://www.fastcompany.com/online/02/meyerson.html>
How Digital is Your Company?
by Adrian Slywotzky
Forget about the e-hype. Going digital --
converting from atoms to bits -- gives your company a competitive
edge, but only if you focus on the basics: money, talent, customers,
and time. If there is one lesson that we can all learn from the
continuing evolution of work and competition in the new economy,
it's this: Change the question, and you change the game.
<http://www.fastcompany.com/online/22/digital.html>
Wired Magazine
New Rules for the New Economy:
Twelve dependable principles for thriving in a turbulent world
by Kevin Kelly, Editor of Wired Magazine
The Digital Revolution gets all the headlines
these days. But turning slowly beneath the fast-forward turbulence,
steadily driving the gyrating cycles of cool techno-gadgets and
gotta-haves, is a much more profound revolution -- the Network
Economy.
This emerging new economy represents a tectonic
upheaval in our commonwealth, a social shift that reorders our
lives more than mere hardware or software ever can. It has its
own distinct opportunities and its own new rules. Those who play
by the new rules will prosper; those who ignore them will not.
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.09/newrules.html>
The Institute of Noetic Sciences
The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
by Jeremy Narby, Anthropologist
How do shamanic images of "twin serpents,"
symbolizing the sacred energy of life, parallel knowledge of
the DNA double helix discovered by modern biology? Anthropologist
Narby recounts his Amazon journey in search of answers.
<http://www.noetic.org/ions/archivelisting_frame.asp?ID=405>
OR...
The IONS Archives
The Institute is an excellent place to expand
and integrate your thinking. They are working now to get all
of their past articles online. Look for "Amazon Dreaming"
about a South American tribe that dreams together as a community,
Meg Wheatley's reflections on T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, and
other good stuff at their site. The link below will take you
to their growing list of articles online.
<http://www.noetic.org/Ions/archivelisting.asp>
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