[OSList] Open Space and Holacracy

[Harrison Owen]

Wikipedia (as usual) has everything you wanted to know... go to --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy 

I can certainly imagine Open Space playing a role in Holacracies, and in
fact the "governance" in a Open Space could certainly be described as
"Holacratic" -- which is to say "ruling power" is totally distributed
amongst the participants. But there is a real difference. Holacracy in Open
Space is totally an emergent phenomenon. Nobody designed it, nobody
implements it -- it just shows up all by itself. Holacracy in places like
Zappos is a designed phenomenon. Doubtless it works pretty well, but it does
seem to me that they may be working a little too hard, creating something
that can and does happen all by itself. I think.

Harrison

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[mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Kári Gunnarsson
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 11:20 AM
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Subject: Re: [OSList] Open Space and Holacracy

I heard that Holacracy is somehow based upon the principles of Open Space
and uses Open space for its implementation.

On 4 March 2014 08:53, Rob van der Eyden
<robvandereyden at veranderarchitect.nl> wrote:
> Hello Kári,
>
> Interesting question. How do you see the link between Open space and 
> Holacracy?
>
> Kind regards, Rob van der Eyden
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org
> [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] Namens Kári Gunnarsson
> Verzonden: maandag 3 maart 2014 21:52
> Aan: Open Space Forum
> Onderwerp: [OSList] Open Space and Holacracy
>
> There have been much talk about the relationship of the organizational 
> chart and how Open Space operates. Recent compareson to me has been to 
> link the new self-organizing authority and decision-making system 
> called Holacracy
> see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy
>
> I wonder if there are stories on the use of Open space to transform 
> more traditional system to one of Open Space based Holacracy?  I would 
> be happy to learn some of your experiences in this regard.
>
> --
> Kári Gunnarsson
> kari.gunnarsson at simnet.is
> gsm: +354 8645189
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