Open Space Technology (OST) is an effective, economical, fast, and easily repeatable strategy for organizing meetings of between 5 and 1,000 participants. First developed in 1984, it has now been used around the world with all types of organizations including corporations, community groups, government agencies, schools, and churches. OST produces better meetings and helps groups achieve such organizational goals as self-managed work groups, distributed leadership, and utilizing diversity quickly and without training. In Expanding Our Now, OST creator Harrison Owen offers numerous examples to illustrate the evolution of OST and explores what it is, how it developed as a process for meeting management, and how and why it works all over the world, for groups of all sizes dealing with a vast range of issues. Owen shows how OST can move organizations to higher levels of performance, without elaborate training or professional facilitators.
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Open Space Technology (OST) is an effective, economical, fast, and easily repeatable strategy for organizing meetings of between 5 and 1,000 participants. First developed in 1984, it has now been used around the world with all types of organizations including corporations, community groups, government agencies, schools, and churches. OST produces better meetings and helps groups achieve such organizational goals as self-managed work groups, distributed leadership, and utilizing diversity quickly and without training. In Expanding Our Now, OST creator Harrison Owen offers numerous examples to illustrate the evolution of OST and explores what it is, how it developed as a process for meeting management, and how and why it works all over the world, for groups of all sizes dealing with a vast range of issues. Owen shows how OST can move organizations to higher levels of performance, without elaborate training or professional facilitators.
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Owen Harrison is no longer just the man who wrote the book on Open Space Technology — He’s now the man who wrote the books. Expanding Our Now is Harrison’s second crack at explaining the organizational theory he developed after watching a celebration in an African village. Basically the theory boils down to this: A group will organize itself to solve a specific problem if you sit everyone in a circle and get out of the way. The nuts-and-bolts of this process were described in Harrison’s earlier, Open Space Technology: A User’s Guide. This time around, the author gives us a bit more history and theory. Your reaction to this book will depend to a large extent on how ready you are to accept OST as a concept and how open to new management techniques you are in general. But even if you’re not in the market for newly minted organizational theories, we at getAbstract.com recommend that you read this book, if only to absorb some of its innovative suggestions about how to get the most out of that bane of corporate life — the meeting.
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- The Millennium Organization in Front Matter, page 135, and Back Matter
- Tales from Open Space by Harrison, Editor Owen in Front Matter, page 136, and Back Matter
- Leadership Is by Harrison Owen in Front Matter, page 135, and Back Matter
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge on page 123, and page 125
- Large Group Interventions: Engaging the Whole System for Rapid Change (Jossey-Bass Business & Management) by Barbara Benedict Bunker in Front Matter
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- Open Space Technology: A User's Guide by Harrison Owen on 4 pages
- The Power of Spirit: How Organizations Transform by Harrison Owen in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Quantum Leaps: Seven Skills for Workplace ReCreation by Charlotte Shelton on page 135, and Back Matter
- The Change Handbook: Group Methods for Shaping the Future by Tom Devane on page 244, and Back Matter
- Accidental Genius: Revolutionize Your Thinking Through Private Writing by Mark Levy on page 53, and Back Matter
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