OSO and chaordic commons
Larry Peterson
larry at spiritedorg.com
Tue Mar 19 06:06:11 PST 2002
Thanks for this theme discussion as it has been a real interest of mine
since Dee Hock's book. I work, from time to time, with one client who
has both experienced OST and wants to create the conditions for a
community of key players to emerge to provide a government-business
service that is owned by the "commons" not the government or the
business. The community has met in Open Space, on line and in other
face to face forums. We have explored some of the governing principles.
However, convincing folks providing a service (be it government or IT)
to move beyond the "one enterprise" model to a "community" governance
model is a slow but proceeding processes. It is proceeding because it is
becoming clearer to all that the IT and service agenda (like with VISA)
cannot be "owned" by any one player if it expects to be able to adapt to
increased demand and the rapid pace of innovation in IT possibilities.
(XML being on such development that is proving to have some neat
capabilities for liking different data bases for common work.)
Convincing either government or the private sector to work together for
common interest is not easy when both are used to being "in control" or
so they think. Dee Hocks' story suggests that it is possible. (I agree
with Harrison that his current approach doesn't seem to help, however).
For me it raises interesting questions as to what principles or laws in
addition to the 4 and 1 actually bound the space for a self-organizing
corporate entity. Dee Hock suggests the ones that worked for VISA at
the beginning at least.
Larry
Larry Peterson
Associates in Transformation
Toronto, ON, Canada
416.653.4829
larry at spiritedorg.com
www.spiritedorg.com
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