I just signed up for the 12th. international OSonOS (Open Space on Open Space) conference. Last year it was right here in Denmark but this year it's in Goa, forcing me to travel to India's most famous vacation spot. Dammit! I'll have to take Patricia along, just to share the burden :o)
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Category Archives: Leadership
Leadership is an insanely important discipline. Here you’ll find the thought, tools and tricks of the trade of great leaders.
Open Space Status and future
Harrison Owen wrote a brilliant summation on OST on the open space mailing list, which covers the origins, history and current status of Open Space Technology.
The ending contains a wonderful challenge to all of us who know and use open space, and has certainly started med thinking about what the next step … Continue Reading ››
The ending contains a wonderful challenge to all of us who know and use open space, and has certainly started med thinking about what the next step … Continue Reading ››
Metrics
It's nice to see that Fast Company agrees with me on the values and pitfalls of metrics :o)
Here's a current Fast Company article on the "what gets measured gets done" thinking.
And here's one I wrote a while back, and a more recent one.
Fast Company:
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Here's a current Fast Company article on the "what gets measured gets done" thinking.
And here's one I wrote a while back, and a more recent one.
Fast Company:
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Psycopathic corporations
The Corporation is a Canadian documentary released last year, which has an interesting premise: Under current law, a corporation is a person. But what kind of person?
Considering the odd legal fiction that deems a corporation a ?person? in the eyes of the law, the feature documentary employs a checklist, based on actual … Continue Reading ››
Considering the odd legal fiction that deems a corporation a ?person? in the eyes of the law, the feature documentary employs a checklist, based on actual … Continue Reading ››
Quote
We live in a world where attraction is ubiquitous. Organization wants to happen. People want their lives to mean something. We seek one another to develop new capacities. With all these wonderful and innate desires calling us to organize, we can stop worrying about designing perfect structure or rules. We need to become intrigued by … Continue Reading ››
The law of two feet
Inspired by a question on the OSlist (the Open Space mailing list), I wrote the following observations on the law of two feet. The law of two feet states, that in Open Space meetings, any time you feel that you're not learning and not contributing, you can use your two feet to go somewhere else.
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Coffee, tea or … a chat with the airline CEO?
Inc. Magazine has an article about JetBlue CEO David Neeleman, who regularly puts in a stint on one of his flights, serving and meeting his customers.
As we sat there, buckling our seat belts and checking out the televisions in front of us, a middle-aged man with slightly graying hair stood up in … Continue Reading ››
As we sat there, buckling our seat belts and checking out the televisions in front of us, a middle-aged man with slightly graying hair stood up in … Continue Reading ››
Motivation games
Yahoo has a whole section on Work/Life health with some interesting stuff in it. I especially enjoyed some of the games describes in this article.
Nonviolent communication
Nonviolent communication (nvc) is an excellent tool, especially for communicating in difficult situations. Like telling an employee he's fired, criticizing someones work or reprimanding a child.
The Center for nonviolent communication have an excellent overview of nvc.
Marshall B. Rosenberg, the man behind nvc says in an interview:
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The Center for nonviolent communication have an excellent overview of nvc.
Marshall B. Rosenberg, the man behind nvc says in an interview:
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The problem with metrics
Can you know something, that you haven't measured? Of course you can. I would actually argue, that by far the largest percentage of what you know about the current state of your organization was not something you measured - it was knowledge that came to you via some other process than objective metrics. A few … Continue Reading ››