[OSList] Open Space and Holacracy

Tue Mar 4 11:03:04 PST 2014

Christine, Zappo Holarchs “rolled out” according to the following... Sounds
like sort of a mandate to me. ho

http://qz.com/161210/zappos-is-going-holacratic-no-job-titles-no-managers-no
-hierarchy 

Harrison Owen

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USA

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[mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Christine
Whitney Sanchez
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 12:46 PM
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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

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

Harrison Owen
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Potomac, MD 20854
USA

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Camden, Maine 04843

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(summer)  207-763-3261

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[mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Kári Gunnarsson
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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

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[mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] Namens Kári Gunnarsson

Verzonden: maandag 3 maart 2014 21:52

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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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