[OSList] Open Space and Holacracy

[Dan Mezick]

The LawOf2Feet is always active, right?!?

Some (most) of the folks at work "virtually walk away" in their mind, every day, leaving only the body...to EMbody the state of: 

dis engagement. 

Disengagement =

Lack of Passion + 
Lack of Responsibility

To create disengagement, make everything (especially your meetings) mandatory. 

That will do it.

To create engagement, issue genuine invitations, and respectfully give folks enough time to think it over.

I see it over and over again, in the Agile space: mandated process change. "Mandated collaboration" if you will.

It's a surefire way to mess up something perfectly good!

The world is self-organizing; let's see what develops.

Daniel

But wait, there's more:

Mandated Collaboration Explained
http://newtechusa.net/agile/mandated-agile-part2/

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On Mar 4, 2014, at 2:03 PM, "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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
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> From: oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org [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 
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> Christine Whitney Sanchez, Partner
> Innovation Partners International
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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/
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> 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.
> 
> 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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> 
> 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:
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> 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
> 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.
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