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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Harrison,<br>
<br>
I'm looking forward to seeing you again at the Open Space on Peace
and High Performance in NYC.<br>
<br>
I've been off the list, mostly a lurker, since your wonderful
reply to me back in October where you said you don't bite :-).<br>
<br>
The gist of your reply back then seems to tie into this linked in
(and linked - up) dialog. I've been meditating on that reply. You
said if you were to put together an open space training - the
short part would be the "tradecraft", all the practicalities, and
the second long part "might look something like a full day in
silent meditation".<br>
<br>
I thought I'd take your advice with the silent meditation part,
thus my silence. Part of that time has been savoring an old used
paper copy of "Spirit". Really good stuff. A shame it's out of
print.<br>
<br>
But yet again - I find myself rebelling against your input on the
OSList. It seems you are discouraging people to understand because
it has been false understanding that had to be overturned to be
appropriately in Open Space. Perhaps those living in the old
paradigm have to let go of their old boxes, but my experience is
mostly on the other side of this box. I'd never been attracted to
management. My youth was spent with the works of American
anarchists and libertarians. The concepts of self-organization
seem like native soil to me.<br>
<br>
It does seem that the most urgent highest priority is the
meditation. Opening self to spirit. *And* I also sense that there
is value in the theory and understanding - though only in service
to Spirit. And with the awareness that it needs to be adaptive,
not rigid and dogmatic. In fact, I believe it's already been
mathematically proven with Goedel's theorum that self-referential
systems can never be perfectly described - or understood. Our maps
will never be capable of fully describing the territory. But that
doesn't mean a good map isn't useful. Just not the final word.<br>
<br>
So I hope - dearly hope - that we not discourage the theoreticians
on the list. It's not as important as the experience of Open
Space. It's not as important as the practice. But it's still
valuable.<br>
<br>
My 2 cents.<br>
<br>
With Respect,<br>
Harold<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 1/10/14 1:43 PM, Harrison Owen wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Christine
– sorry for my English, and even worse, my American English.
And I do tend to play with words and joke which can and does
get me in trouble. But I am not really sure that your
difficulty has much to do with language, neither yours nor
mine. I suspect this may be a classic case of working much
too hard. Indeed, I would predict that the harder you tried
to understand self organization, the less likely you are to
succeed. Nothing magical here – just my observation of folks
such as yourself. Very bright, well trained, disciplined,
and logical to a fault who when confronted with a problem
WILL find a solution and develop understanding. This
approach can work in lots of situations, but in the case of
our relationship to self-organization in ourselves and our
organizations – I find it usually leads to frustration and
one might say failure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I
can say all this with some authority because that was
precisely my own situation. When I was confronted with what
was happening in Open Space (25 years ago) it made
absolutely no sense to me at all. And what makes no sense
does not lend itself to understanding. I “knew,” as did
everybody else of my age, background and training – that
what seemed to be taking place in Open Space simply could
not happen. Organization was something that we created,
managed, and controlled. Meetings could only be effective
with carefully prepared agendas, great attention to detail,
finely tuned management and facilitation. That was the
“gospel” and I did believe. More than that, people told me
that I was very good at doing all those things, and I chose
to believe that too. And if what seemed to be going on in
Open Space was actually going on, then just about everything
I believed, took to be self evident, and practiced with a
vengeance – was not only open to question: It simply wasn’t
true. Shocking! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Worse
yet, the harder I tried to understand how Open Space fit
into the “boxes” I thought I was supposed to be using, the
harder it all became. I knew what a good manager was
supposed to do (Make the plan, manage to the plan, meet the
plan). I knew how to run good meetings (create the agenda,
make a design, follow the plan, control the participants).
But in Open Space, none of that applied. And the more I
tried, the worse things got. Been there!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Things
started to change when I relaxed, although it may well be
that my relaxation was due to exhaustion. But in any event I
found myself giving up on my efforts to “do” something,
while simultaneously engaging in what the poet Coleridge
called, “A willing suspension of disbelief.” In a word I
just threw in the towel (Americanism for “quitting”) on any
attempt to understand. Instead I spent a lot of time just
noticing what was going on, even (or maybe most especially)
when I just couldn’t believe it. I paid particular attention
to striking anomalies – those situations where something
happened which totally violated everything I knew to be
true. Some folks might call such moments “counterintuitive”
– but for me they were just crazy. I remember saying to a
friend one time, “What sort of story would we have to tell
so that what is obviously crazy comes out looking sane?” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Over
the years, that story has taken shape, partially by my own
telling, but mostly with the aid and assistance of multiple
people. We now have working titles: Complex Adaptive
Systems, Emergence, Chaos Theory, and more. I suspect that
most people still think it is crazy, which is why most
people find Open Space rather hard to take, But for myself,
insanity looks much more rational every day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Christine<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 09, 2014 6:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] From linkedin today<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Harrison<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The difficulty of not being a native
English speaker is not to be able to understand subtilities
such as humor. So I am not quite sure whether you are being
slightly "moqueur" (kindly making fun of me) or not. ;) <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">However indeed i am willing to make
public my struggle to understand as I truly believe that
self-organization is something that is drawing more and more
interest , in the public and in myself. And I have found it
very difficult to understand. And also as an open space
facilitator, to be completely honest, I don't know what to
do with "be as invisible as possible" when not in an open
space event. Before. After. That´s where we are supposed to
"prepare " the system for self organisation. If I dońt
understand fully what it is, how can I help prepare for it ?
Or after it ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If I want to take things easier, then I
can see open space technology as a tool. We don't know why
it works but it works, like you say it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But if I see it as a way to help a group
"better" self-organise, ie for me become more lively and
healthy, then.. Well. What shall I do ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If i have a baby and want him to grow
healthy and lively, i'll create a nurturing environment. But
without love it won ´t work. I have very few things I can
control to raise him, except myself. If he gets sick, in
many cases I will look for acurate help and take care of
him. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are we as open space facilitators the
helpers that people look for when the system is sick ? (this
looks like what i am experiencing right now) or are we
gardeners of gardens that are already growing well and need
a little help for becoming a bit more beautiful ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
Christine <o:p></o:p></p>
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Le 9 janv. 2014 à 23:24, "Harrison Owen" <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">hhowen@verizon.net</a>>
a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Christine
You are wonderful! The concerns you express are those of
many (myself) and your willingness to “go public” is
fantastic. In fact that “willingness” is what makes our
electronic community (OSLIST) so wonderful. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You
said: “Then there is something that I don't understand
about self-org. : if we want to keep the system healthy
and alive, what should we do ?”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">And
my thought is “Nothing” and “A Lot – but subtly.” The
System will do what it does, and we will never control
it. And who says that our idea of “fairness” is fair? To
whom, what? Why?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">All
that said... I believe there is a whole, uncharted world
of things we can bring “to the party.” Those “things”
have little to do with what we have previously learned
as the “right and proper things to do.” And Great Thanks
to you for raising the Question that opens the door to
what I believe is/are the central concerns and “growth
points” along our collective journey in Open Space.
More...More...More...</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 09, 2014 4:48 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] From linkedin today</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi David<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Very interesting, that makes sense to
me. Does it mean that supporting coherence of the system
as a whole should be an organizing principle ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But then Harrison will say I guess
that it is not necessary, as self org. will take care of
the system itself. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Then there is something that I don't
understand about self-org. : if we want to keep the
system healthy and alive, what should we do ? <br>
<br>
Christine Koehler<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">06 13 28 71 38<o:p></o:p></p>
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Le 9 janv. 2014 à 22:20, David Osborne <<a
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href="mailto:dosborne@change-fusion.com">dosborne@change-fusion.com</a>>
a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I found the questions about how
do you keep a system as a coherent whole
fascinating. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Part of the dance is the back
and forth between coherence and fragmentation.
Chaos offers both opportunity and threat, new life
and death. Coherence leads to new life patterns
emerging, fragmentation leads towards death and
the cycle toward new life continues. In my
experience there is lot's that can be done to
reinforce, nurture and support coherence. Holding
the space is one aspect. Drawing attention and
building consensus around what is emerging is
another, supporting parts of the system through
conflict in a manner that continues to increase
the likelihood of coherence is a third. There are
many more...and those are some quick thoughts for
now. All of this can and is done with in the
context of self-organization and someone having
the passion and taking the initiative to do it.
The two are not mutually exclusive. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers to all. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">David <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:06 PM,
christine koehler <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:chris.alice.koehler@gmail.com"
target="_blank">chris.alice.koehler@gmail.com</a>>
wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Peggy <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">If I simplify
what you say (and I apologize for it), I
understand that you say that what keep a
self-organized system coherent as a whole is
coming regularly together as a whole,
following our two feet to sessions called
around we love, coming back as a whole,
dispersing again for the evening. Of course I
would tend to agree with that. But then how do
you do with very large systems ? Or does it
mean that any system that is too large to come
regularly together as a whole is oversized ?
should split into several smaller systems to
keep its good health ? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">and what about
decision making ? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Christine <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:24
PM, Peggy Holman <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:peggy@peggyholman.com"
target="_blank">peggy@peggyholman.com</a>>
wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’d add to what Harrison
is saying about what keeps a social system
coherent without someone in charge. It’s
something built into the practice of Open
Space Technology: coming together as a
whole, following our two feet to sessions
called around we love, coming back as a
whole, dispersing again for the evening.
Like breathing. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There’s a power in
coming together to reflect that connects
us, helps us see ourselves in context,
creates a coherent sense of “us” that
complements all of the “I’s”. So without
the need to make decisions or come to
consensus, I suspect that long-lived
self-organizing social systems create a
rhythm in which the whole (or a sufficient
subset of it) comes together periodically.
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As an example, a
few years back, I learned of a group
of African Americans that met
informally for Saturday breakfast in
Tacoma, Washington once a week for
thirty-five years. This gathering
became the backbone of the African
American community in that city. It
was the place to connect, to learn
what was happening, to share ideas, to
find partners, etc. No one in charge,
just part of the rhythm of the
community. And lots of activities
emerged from it. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Jan 9,
2014, at 11:50 AM, Christine
< <a
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank
you for your answer <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What do
you mean exactely with the
law of 2 feet ? <o:p></o:p></p>
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Christine Koehler <o:p></o:p></p>
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Le 9 janv. 2014 à 17:27,
"Harrison Owen" < <a
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href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net"
target="_blank">hhowen@verizon.net</a>>
a écrit : <o:p></o:p></p>
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style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’m
awake now (Thank you
Michael). And
Christine – to your
questions and my
thoughts.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“In
a self -organized
system, how do you
keep the organization
coherent as a whole ?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">How
do you make decisions
that concern the whole
organization ?”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I
think the simple
answer may be, “You
don’t (make decisions
or maintain
coherency). The System
does – which is in a
way the essence of
self-organization. I
think one way of
understanding self
organization is that
it is the systemic
response to a changing
environment in order
to maintain internal
and external
coherence... a
complicated way of
saying that the system
wants to get along in
the world in a
positive fashion. Part
of maintaining that
systemic coherence is
by making a whole
bunch of decisions –
none, or few, of which
are made by a vote or
executive dictate. A
powerful mechanism in
this regard is our old
friend, “The Law of
Two feet.” – I think.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>christine
koehler<br>
<b>Sent:</b>
Wednesday, January
08, 2014 5:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> World
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">In a self
-organized system,
how do you keep
the organization
coherent as a
whole ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt">How
do you make
decisions that
concern the whole
organization ?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Christine
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On
Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at
8:27 PM, Harrison
Owen <<a
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href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net" target="_blank">hhowen@verizon.net</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Paul
– This piece
from Zappos is
interesting
indeed. Though I
must say I do
wonder why the
Zapposites feel
it necessary to
organize a self
organizing
system? As they
say, “In a city,
people and
businesses are
self-organizing.”
I agree, and why
not just follow
the beaten path?
Holarchy is a
wonderful
concept, and a
good description
of what I think
I experience in
a self
organizing
system. But why
go for a
knock-off when
you can have the
original? Just
let (invite) the
system to self
organize. It
will work
better, and
costs a lot less
effort. As
Stuart Kauffman
might say,
“order for
free.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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shows that
every time the
size of a city
doubles,
innovation or
productivity
per resident
increases by
15 percent.
But when
companies get
bigger,
innovation or
productivity
per employee
generally goes
down. So we're
trying to
figure out how
to structure
Zappos more
like a city,
and less like
a bureaucratic
corporation.
In a city,
people and
businesses are
self-organizing.
We're trying
to do the same
thing by
switching from
a normal
hierarchical
structure to a
system called
Holacracy,
which enables
employees to
act more like
entrepreneurs
and
self-direct
their work
instead of
reporting to a
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