Care and Feeding

[Harrison Owen]

Sounds good Larry - Now how about some stories?

 

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Harrison Owen

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Larry
Peterson
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 5:14 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Care and Feeding

 

Harrison and Paul:

 

I agree that the "care and feeding" of self-organization is a good theme for
conversation and maybe a book.  I have been in conversation with an
interesting guy named Richard Knowles who has written the book "The
Leadership Dance" which he believes is about enabling leadership to foster
self-organization.  His experience is similar to Paul's in that he was the
manager of a number of DuPont plants that faced some environmental issues.
He tells the story of his discovery of how leadership needs to encourage or
foster self-organization.  He is now retired and a consultant.  (The Center
for Self-Organizing Leadership, 2002. - You can google the center)

 

His book is about using the Enneagram as a tool for understanding the
relationship between intentional management and self-organization.  He heard
us on the Plexus call about Open Space and then called me as we are not far
apart.  He does not really know Open Space Technology as a way of practicing
self-organization.  Like many others, his primary focus is theory or
perspective which can lead to certain kinds of practice (a friend of Meg
Wheatly).  It is interesting how the two main "levels" of the Enneagram, to
him, suggest a deep structure of self-organization overlaid by steps in a
process that create the conditions for it, or not.  The steps have some
similarities to what we do to Open the Space - it is much, much more
complicated.

 

I've also been thinking a lot lately about "self-organization" in relation
to Ken Wilbur's 4 quadrants. Self-organization is the "description" of what
systems do - the lower left quadrant.  All the other quadrants are also
active and worth exploring and might help us with the care and feeding.

 

Larry

 

Larry Peterson

Associates in Transformation

Toronto, ON, Canada

416.653.4829

 

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