[OSList] Open Space and Holacracy
Harrison Owen
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Tue Mar 4 14:27:19 PST 2014
Christine ... “I find very interesting this tension between personal vision (think about Gore for instance or Semler and Semco) and self-organization. looks very complex and human to me ;)
but still wondering how self-organization fits within this kind of frame.”
It is really easy. Self Organization is already there, but the poor folks at Zappo think they did it! Surprise – what they really did was complicate something that could have happened very easily by itself. Ah! But we humans have to feel we are in control. Even when we say we aren’t and don’t care to be. The Trojan Horse rides again. Zappo’d as it were.
ho
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This reminds me of a very short conversation I had with a participant of the Practice of Peace seminar last January. He had left Zappos not so long ago. We exchanged a few words about the ambiguity of Tony Hsieh mandating Zappos to become holacratic, because it was his own personal vision.
I find very interesting this tension between personal vision (think about Gore for instance or Semler and Semco) and self-organization.
looks very complex and human to me ;)
but stlll wondering how self-organization fits within this kind of frame.
Christine
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:03 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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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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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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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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[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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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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