Open Space Technology
by HarrisonWhat if you could identify a mission-critical issue for your company or group, bring together the people with something to contribute and something at stake, focus on that issue and take decisive action all in the same meeting? A fantasy? Not with the application of Open Space Technology, a simple and coherent system for dealing with the issues that affect an organization now.
Open Space Technology is a methodological tool that enables self-organizing groups of all sizes to deal with hugely complex issues in a very short period of time.
Authored by the originator of Open Space Technology, Open Space Technology: A User's Guide is a practical, step-by-step user's guide details what needs to be done before, during, and after an Open Space event.
It is the most authoritative book available on how to plan and run a successful Open Space event.
Owen details all the practical considerations necessary to create Open Space.
He begins with the most important question--should you do Open Space at all--and examines what types of situations are appropriate for Open Space Technology and what types are not.
He goes on to look at nuts-and-bolts issues such as supplies, logistics, and who should come and how you should go about getting them there.
Ultimately, Open Space Technology is not so much about doing as being.
Drawing on Owen's experience as a student of myth, ritual and culture, it operates at levels and in ways that standard facilitation training, or experience, have missed.
- First published
- 2008
- Publishers
- Berrett-Koehler Publishers· Incorporated
- Language
- English
I am a big fan of the Open Space approach and have used it many times over the year. But this book didn't quite meet my expectations.
It's been my pleasure to know the author of this book ever since he hunted me down after my review of [[ASIN:1576756173 Wave Rider: Leadership for High Performance in a Self-Organizing World]], and I have also had the benefit of being a participant in a number of Open Space sessions run by, among others, Peggy Holman, author of [[ASIN:1605095214 Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity]] and the older [[ASIN:1576753794 The Change Handbook: The Definitive Resource on Today's Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems]].I cannot over-state the value of this book to anyone who has a complex and expensive problem but cannot afford to get the author there personally.
How many conferences or seminars have you been to where the most stimulating parts were the coffee break discussions between sessions? Harrison Owen, the originator of Open Space Technology, designed a strategy to power the whole event with the passion and energy of coffee break discussions.
About Harrison
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