Discussion forum for members of the Massachusetts Bay Organizational Development Learning Group

Thursday, October 12, 2006

When are large group interventions called for?

At our October 11 program meeting, “Large Group Dynamics,” we had a masterful experiential presentation led by Katharine Esty of Ibis Consulting Group. We learned how to understand the culture of large groups and how they differ from small ones. For our question of the month, we’ve chose on the issues considered at the meeting, namely, when is the use of a large group process indicated?

Jim Murphy

Monday, October 09, 2006

OD and KM

Terence Seamon, who maintains a blog on OD and other topics at http://learningvoyager.blogspot.com/, has noted an interesting take on KM as it relates to OD on yet another blog.

The blog is "How to Save the World" (http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/) and is maintained by Dave Pollard . The post is entitled "An Approach to to KM and Learning That Embraces Complexity," http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2006/10/04.html#a1664 .

Jim Murphy