[OSList] Open Space and Holacracy

[Christine Whitney Sanchez]

Great post, Daniel.  Our company worked with Tony Hseigh’s Downtown Las Vegas Project last year and found the whole thing to be very self-organizing.  

I’m surprised that Zappos is imposing any kind of mandate - where did you discover this?

Namasté,

Christine 

Christine Whitney Sanchez, Partner
Innovation Partners International
Phoenix, AZ, USA  +1.480.759.0262
www.innovationpartners.com


On Mar 4, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Dan Mezick <dan at newtechusa.net> wrote:

> 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/
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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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.
>> 
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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
>> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list
>> 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
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