[OSList] From linkedin today

[christine koehler]

Harrison,

In a  self -organized system, how do you keep the organization coherent as
a whole ?
How do you make decisions that concern the whole organization ?

Christine


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:

> Paul – This piece from Zappos is interesting indeed. Though I must say I
> do wonder why the Zapposites feel it necessary to organize a self
> organizing system? As they say, “In a city, people and businesses are
> self-organizing.” I agree, and why not just follow the beaten path?
> Holarchy is a wonderful concept, and a good description of what I think I
> experience in a self organizing system. But why go for a knock-off when you
> can have the original? Just let (invite) the system to self organize. It
> will work better, and costs a lot less effort. As Stuart Kauffman might
> say, “order for free.”
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> Research shows that every time the size of a city doubles, innovation or
> productivity per resident increases by 15 percent. But when companies get
> bigger, innovation or productivity per employee generally goes down. So
> we're trying to figure out how to structure Zappos more like a city, and
> less like a bureaucratic corporation. In a city, people and businesses are
> self-organizing. We're trying to do the same thing by switching from a
> normal hierarchical structure to a system called Holacracy, which enables
> employees to act more like entrepreneurs and self-direct their work instead
> of reporting to a manager who tells them what to do.
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> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pam-ross/workplace-reinvention_b_4541805.html#<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pam-ross/workplace-reinvention_b_4541805.html>
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