[OSList] Open Space and Holacracy

[Dan Mezick]

An invitation arouses curiousity, but a mandate dries up 
the bones... Ancient Proverb

The Mandate of Holacracy at Zappos:

http://newtechusa.net/agile/the-mandate-of-holacracy-at-zappos/

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On Mar 4, 2014, at 11:36 AM, "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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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> -----Original Message-----
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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
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> 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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