[OSList] Open Space- A little too open for "Agile enablement" firms?

Sat Jul 25 22:05:41 PDT 2015

thanks a lot, Daniel and Harold and all of you people for sharing this very interesting conversation

the video is great and the conversation you have about OST being "too usefull or too quick" and leading to selling less days, I love it.
I understand it can be a real worry for big or medium consultancy firms (obviously with big or medium expenses difficult to lower quickly) who buit their business models on selling a certain amount of days per year to a specific number of clients...and selling less days can be a threat to their stability

as a single person company (not alone, beacause in a good network, and therefore very much Agile !) , I believe that if i sell less days to my clients it will give me more time to find other clients who could make good use of my/our knowhow.
and therefore, contribute better and faster to a better world if a greater number of firms self organize...

thanks again for this in depth sunday reflection :)
have a nice day, warm thoughts, Béatrice

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> Message du 25/07/15 17:10
> De : "Harold Shinsato via OSList" 
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>Yes! I first learned about the light bulb conspiracy from Paul Wheaton (a renowned Permaculture promoter) at an Open Space event, the one I organize in Montana, Missoula Barcamp 2013.
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> Highly recommend this 2010 documentary about it - "The Light Bulb Conspiracy: The Untold Story of Planned Obsolenscence" -https://vimeo.com/109014324
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> It is a case study of a specific planned obsolescence conspiracy, and a successful one. But the movie is really about how it's everywhere. Planned obsolescence is standard practice everywhere, especially in computing. And agile is being destructively used to produce more and faster to be thrown away - including coaching transactions.
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> Open Space can play a critical role in reversing this unsustainable soul polluting trend that is consuming and destroying the planet for some temporary profits for a small minority. And doing it in agile adoptions is a leading edge for Open Space directly into the heart of this destructive and recent (less than 100 year old) practice. This quote from an African in the movie is very telling - and challenging.
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> "Posterity will never forgive us. Posterity will suddenly find out about the throw away lifestyles of people in the advanced countries."
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>     Harold
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On 7/25/15 7:31 AM, Daniel Mezick via OSList wrote:
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Most all Agile adoptions do not (repeat) do not begin in Open Space. Curious, isn't it? I mean, why not? 
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> Something about having to explain about engagement, invitation, opt-in participation, and self-organization to executives. 
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> When selling, simple is better. The less said- the better. Sell them what they are buying! And be quiet about everything else. 
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> Open Space is super-efficient. It encourages self-organization. At scale. 
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> This efficiency reduces the number of Agile coaching & Agile consulting days that can effectively be sold. 
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> When Agile adoptions start in Open Space and then periodic OST events are scheduled periodically, something curious happens: genuine agility sprouts. Authentic self-organization and self-management ensues, little by little... more and more. 
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> Once this happens, business-as-usual (for the consultant) usually includes vacating the premises. 
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> OST optimizes on transformations, not transactions. 
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> Perhaps OST is a little too efficient? Kind of like the original design for the light bulb?
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'The Light Bulb Cartel and Planned Obsolescence'

> Busy day today -- a couple of quick ones for now. This is Tim Taylor:
The Light Bulb Cartel and Planned Obsolescence: The old 1951 movie "The Man in the White Suit," starring Alec Guinness, is both an entertaining adventure/comedy and a meditation on technology and planned obsolescence. The Alec Guinness character invents a wonderful new fabric that will never get dirty and never wear out. He sees a future where ordinary people will save money on clothes and cleaning expenses. People marvel at the invention at first, but soon everyone is against him: the textile and clothing companies fear his cloth will put them out of business, the workers in those companies fear losing their jobs, and those who do the washing fear losing work, too. Near the end of the movie, one character notes wryly that markets won't function if the products work too well. He says: “What do you think happened to all the other things? The razor blade that doesn’t get blunt? The car that runs on water with a pinch of something else?”
It's harder to come up with clear-cut real-world example of where companies sought to reduce the quality of a product in order to boost sales. But in the October 2014 issue of IEEE Spectrum, Markus Krajewski tells the story of "The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy: The Phoebus cartel engineered a shorter-lived lightbulb and gave birth to planned obsolescence." ...

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