April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 19m
English
When first I created Open Space Technology in 1985 my intention was only to find a way towards meetings that had the energy of a good coffee break combined with the substance of a carefully prepared agenda. The eighty-five brave souls who initially experienced Open Space while attending the Third Annual International Symposium on Organization Transformation in Monterey, California, appeared to confirm that the objectives had been achieved, but nobody seemed particularly impressed. Open Space was effective and fun, but beyond that, not much of note.
Now, some twenty years later, with thousands of applications in multiple countries it remains true that Open Space is effective and ...