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Title: Open Space Technology: A User's Guide by Harrison Owen ISBN: 1-57675-024-8 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: a "How to" book
Comment: I recommend using open space tehcnology and/or other large scale intervention techniques to mine the collective emotional intelligence of a group of people (this may be your company, or people from an acadamic field you belong to).
This book gives you the details on HOW to organize and facilitate an open space meeting - (what kind of location you need, how to organize the room, how to use break up rooms, how to facilitate, ...). You'll also get imporatnt rules and lessons for making this technology work. In short, it's pretty good at doing this "HOW TO" part.
WARNING: If you want to know WHY it works and if you want some examples, there are 2 other books to take a look at:
- tales from Open space (Harrison Owen, Editor, 1995)
- Expanding our now (Harrison Owen, 1997)
Good luck!
Patrick E.C. Merlevede, MSc -- author of "7 Steps to Emotional Intelligence"
Rating: 5
Summary: A Journey *Not* for the Faint of Heart
Comment: When I particpated in my first Open Space, a friend told me to trust the process. At first glance, Open Space seems not to make a lick of sense or too "airy fairy" to work. Its a powerful process I've used this book as a guide to help me facilitate many Open Space sessions.
I highly recommend this book if you want to facilite Open Space---it provides many good ideas for before, during and after the session, covers when and when not to use Open Space, and gives the would-be facilitor the mind- and heart-set to facilitate Open Space well. I would not recommend faciltiating Open Space without first experiencing it.
I've used Open Space with churches, as a partnership-building experience, in organizational change, and in forming national government programs---in the right hands and at the right time, Open Space is a powerful process---this book gives you tools to facilitate it. Use it wisely and well!
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the most valuable books in the world
Comment: As Brookings revealed in 2000, most of the world's 10000 biggest organisations don't yet have the measures to govern the vast majority of value now produced in services and knowledge businesses because as our networking age blossoms value dynamics are mainly intangible, deeply woven into the human relationships we self-organise, not for precise planning and overpowering command and control from the top. Value multiplication is a core gravity which should be embedded in everyone's right to work, learn , behave openly.
Whilst some of those of the transparency communities interlinking at http://www.valuetrue.com open source the simplest maths of intangible systems, others have much more fun voting on what are the safest methods to protect your system from doing an Andersen or a NASA self-destruction of its greatest purpose. Open Space is voted as the number 1 method uniting transparency communities, and because of its simplicity I predict it will always be the gateway to anyone who prizes self-organising, a term which actually means making the most of everyone's time, learning and passions to make a diffeernce to our overall purpose. A very valuable book, which in my dreams would start any MBA course or any professional's training.
Open Space is now 21 years young and over 100000 experiences mature and networked by people who are both most open with their knowlhow and conscious that you learn something subly more about human relationship trust from every Open Space you particpate in. It is as near as organisations (seen as human relationship infrastructures) can get to a modern day miracle, and long may Harrison light up the open world. See his latest deep concerns with conflict resolution applications at http://www.practiceofpeace.com
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Title: Power of Spirit: How Organizations Transform by Harrison Owen ISBN: 1576750906 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: 30 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Spirit of Leadership: Liberating the Leader in Each of Us by Harrison Owen ISBN: 1576750566 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Expanding Our Now: The Story of Open Space Technology by Harrison Owen ISBN: 1576750159 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry (Thin Book Series) by Sue Annis Hammond ISBN: 0966537319 Publisher: Thin Book Pub Co Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change by Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom, David Cooperrider ISBN: 1576752267 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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