A stand-alone companion to Open Space Technology: a User's Guide. OST aims to help produce better, more productive meetings and help groups achieve such organizational goals as self-managed work groups and distributed leadership. This book is an exploration of what OST 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 range of issues. The book also provides case studies, offering numerous examples to illustrate the evolution of OST.