[OSList] Skye on new world emerging

[Skye Hirst]

 From NYTimes Friedman today  spoke of  two revolutions and thought  
this spoke to Open Space in real way.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-one-country- 
two-revolutions.html


Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce.com, a cloud-based software  
provider, describes this phase of the I.T. revolution with the  
acronym SOCIAL. S, he says, is for speed — everything is now  
happening faster. O, he says, stands for open. If you don’t have an  
open environment inside your company or country, these new tools will  
blow you wide open. C is for collaboration because this revolution  
enables people to organize themselves within companies and societies  
into loosely coupled teams to take on any kind of challenges — from  
designing a new product to taking down a government. I is for  
individuals, who are able to reach around the globe to start  
something or collaborate on something farther, faster, deeper,  
cheaper than ever before — as individuals.
A is for alignment. “There has never been a more important time to  
have all your ships sailing in the same direction,” said Benioff.  
“The power of social media is that it is easier than ever to both  
articulate, and reinforce, the vision and values that create and  
inspire alignment.” And L is for the leadership that does that.  
Leadership in a SOCIAL world has to be a mix of bottom-up and top- 
down. Leaders need to inspire, enable and empower everything coming  
up from below in a company or a social movement and then edit and  
sculpt it with a vision from above into a final product.
The great thing about the new I.T. revolution, says Jeff Weiner, the  
C.E.O. of LinkedIn, is that “it makes it easier and cheaper than ever  
for anyone anywhere to be an entrepreneur” and to have access to all  
the best infrastructure of innovation. “And despite all of our  
challenges,” he adds, “it is happening here in America.”


Skye Hirst, PhD
The Autognomics Institute
Perceiving the Process Nature of Life-itself


skyeh at autognomics.org
www.autognomics.org
Twitter @autognomics




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