[OSList] Open Space and Holacracy

[Christine Whitney Sanchez]

ummm typo…make that Tony Hseih

Christine

On Mar 4, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Christine Whitney Sanchez <christine at innovationpartners.com> wrote:

> 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
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> 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
>> 
>> 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-----
>>> From: oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org
>>> [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
>>> 
>>> 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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