<div dir="ltr">Yes,  amazing how this little principle shows up -  prescription - or description - our desire to give the prescription is so much from wanting to help or control,  or both - yet ? <br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Dan Mezick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan@newtechusa.net" target="_blank">dan@newtechusa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="auto"><div>An invitation arouses curiousity, but a mandate dries up </div><div>the bones... Ancient Proverb</div><div><br></div><div>The Mandate of Holacracy at Zappos:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:'.HelveticaNeueUI';font-size:15px;line-height:19px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="http://newtechusa.net/agile/the-mandate-of-holacracy-at-zappos/" target="_blank">http://newtechusa.net/agile/the-mandate-of-holacracy-at-zappos/</a></span><br>
<br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Mar 4, 2014, at 11:36 AM, "Harrison Owen" <<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net" target="_blank">hhowen@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite">
<div><span>Wikipedia (as usual) has everything you wanted to know... go to --</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy</a> </span><br>
<span></span><br><span>I can certainly imagine Open Space playing a role in Holacracies, and in</span><br><span>fact the "governance" in a Open Space could certainly be described as</span><br><span>"Holacratic" -- which is to say "ruling power" is totally distributed</span><br>
<span>amongst the participants. But there is a real difference. Holacracy in Open</span><br><span>Space is totally an emergent phenomenon. Nobody designed it, nobody</span><br><span>implements it -- it just shows up all by itself. Holacracy in places like</span><br>
<span>Zappos is a designed phenomenon. Doubtless it works pretty well, but it does</span><br><span>seem to me that they may be working a little too hard, creating something</span><br><span>that can and does happen all by itself. I think.</span><br>
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<span></span><br><span>-----Original Message-----</span><br><span>From: <a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br><span>[<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>] On Behalf Of Kári Gunnarsson</span><br>
<span>Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 11:20 AM</span><br><span>To: World wide Open Space Technology email list</span><br><span>Subject: Re: [OSList] Open Space and Holacracy</span><br><span></span><br><span>I heard that Holacracy is somehow based upon the principles of Open Space</span><br>
<span>and uses Open space for its implementation.</span><br><span></span><br><span>On 4 March 2014 08:53, Rob van der Eyden</span><br><span><<a href="mailto:robvandereyden@veranderarchitect.nl" target="_blank">robvandereyden@veranderarchitect.nl</a>> wrote:</span><br>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>Hello Kári,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Interesting question. How do you see the link between Open space and </span><br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Holacracy?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Kind regards, Rob van der Eyden</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
<span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Van: <a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a></span><br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>[<a href="mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>] Namens Kári Gunnarsson</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
<span>Verzonden: maandag 3 maart 2014 21:52</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Aan: Open Space Forum</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Onderwerp: [OSList] Open Space and Holacracy</span><br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>There have been much talk about the relationship of the organizational </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>chart and how Open Space operates. Recent compareson to me has been to </span><br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>link the new self-organizing authority and decision-making system </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>called Holacracy</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
<span>see: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I wonder if there are stories on the use of Open space to transform </span><br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>more traditional system to one of Open Space based Holacracy?  I would </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>be happy to learn some of your experiences in this regard.</span><br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>--</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Kári Gunnarsson</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:kari.gunnarsson@simnet.is" target="_blank">kari.gunnarsson@simnet.is</a></span><br>
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