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Hi Harrison,<br>
<br>
Thanks for your rich reply and explanation of the role of
[empowerment].<br>
<br>
Question: <br>
<br>
Is is true that if we have the 5 preconditions as you describe, do
we still need the following to have an effective OST event?<br>
<br>
(Note I am assuming a private (not a public-conference-type OST
event...)<br>
<br>
Sponsor Properties:<br>
<br>
1. A Sponsor who has permission from the org, to allocate some of
the org's scarce capital, to pay for the event expenses;<br>
<br>
2. A Sponsor who has permission from the org, to invite people to
spend a day if they so choose, by accepting the invite;<br>
<br>
3. A Sponsor who has permission from the org, and is <i>willing</i>
and able to "keep it open", with all the issues "on the table" with
no issues "off limits" as described on page 20 of the GUIDE;<br>
<br>
4. A Sponsor who has permission from the org, and is <i>willing</i>
to: <br>
<br>
a) Represent to the people that the Sponsor's plan is to
immediately act the (as yet unknown) Proceedings and (drum roll
here...)<br>
b) ...actually follow through and act on the issues that
appear in the Proceedings, immediately following the event.<br>
<br>
<br>
If the Sponsor is missing even one of these properties, is it
advised to proceed at all?<br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/14/14 3:36 PM, Harrison Owen via
OSList wrote:<br>
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-- I’m rather curious what you meant by “The overall project
was more complicated than OST?” My confusion comes in part
from my experience that complexity is actually an essential
precondition for OST, or more exactly the effective
operation of self organization. The essential pre-conditions
as I have experienced the are: A Real business issue
(something that people really care about). High levels of
complexity such that no single person or group has a prayer
of figuring it out. High levels of diversity in terms of
people and points of view. Lots of passion and conflict. And
a decision time of yesterday (urgency). Given these 5
conditions, self organization in the more formal setting of
OST or as a natural occurrence just seems to happen...
unless...And this may be the point of problem... It is
arbitrarily constrained... which usually means that somebody
already has the plan/program/design and they are just
looking for buy-in or (worst case) they are simply trying to
sugar coat the pill, and make it seem like the folks are
creating something, when in fact the cake is already baked.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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help the client (the funding body) to really 'empower'...” I
know we talk a lot about empowerment, but I have come to the
conclusion that it is really a red herring, and most
painfully so in those situations where you actually try to
do it. Sounds odd, I guess, but think about it. If I empower
you...you are in my power. And the more I try to empower you
the worse it gets. Real empowerment, in my book, is not an
act that we (or somebody) do, but an acknowledgement of a
pre-existing condition...you are powerful. Of course I might
encourage you a bit to be as powerful as you are, but it is
not something I can give you. You must claim it for
yourself. Strange as it may seem, I find the notion of
“empowerment” to be just the opposite of that fundament of
effective working relationships (or any relationship)
RESPECT. And I suspect that it is precisely here that the
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 13, 2014 2:41 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Daniel Mezick<br>
<b>Cc:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] Authority Distribution in
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">Hi
Daniel. Thanks for your considered response.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">I will
try to keep my response in line with the topic.... but
expect it may meander.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">The OST
day I was preparing for has since come and gone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">I decided
in the end to least give OST a crack and see what
happened.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">It didn't
go very well; but it also went well enough (vis overall
project goals, and client expectations), so I don't feel
so bad about it... even if I had personally envisaged
more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">I am not
one to worry about the cannon... which means sometimes I
break things, as I did this time. There was still an
(informal) sponsor, the one that sent the invites. They
just did not have a presence on the day. Thank you
Daniel as you did make me think critically about the
strength of my role as host. I think I dealt with that
through my introduction to the day; and as it turns out
the authority to host was not an issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">But as it
turns out, that was not really the biggest challenge!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">The main
lessons I took away about what contributed to the
average result:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">There
needs to be clear, compelling shared work.</span></b><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">The
overall project was more complicated than OST, so it
wasn't clear what turning up actually meant, and I think
many did not turn up on the basis of wanting to resolve
a shared challenge (the work), as you might expect for
OST. In straight OST terms, you could say this was an
issue of invitation, but really it was many things.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">So the
group was interesting. They had the heart, but not the
will. They were committed, but without ownership of the
result. I've seen this a lot in the community
engagement field, but nowhere that I have used (or seen)
OST.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">I thought
about this a lot, I thought it might have been about the
invitation and self-selection; but at the end of the day
I think it comes down to the sense of (and invitation in
to) shared work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">It is
super hard to dissolve ingrained power and authority
relationships in the short term. These can't be
sidestepped by an external facilitator.</span></b><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">I
struggled to help the client (the funding body) to
really 'empower'. They talked about it and genuinely
want to, but old habits and mental models don't change
overnight. They really struggled to push beyond
managing the process as superiours (to a set of
subordinate participants). This is 'empowerment' within
a patriarchal system, and it doesn't work. It felt very
yucky at times.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">A curious
side effect of this partriarchal 'empowerment' was an
unwillingness to be clear about the work ("we want to be
open and let them lead the process" they would say... I
got the client to agree that <i>the</i>y were clearly
the leaders, but we didn't quite work out how to put
that into practice).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">Over the
course of the engagement, we all took baby steps
together that invest in their (/our) capacity to really
work together in future. They learned a LOT in a short
period of time, and so did I, but it was too short. By
the end of the project I had the client calling me up to
ask how they could reword things so they didn't reflect
a control response. : ) That was good, but obviously if
they need me for this then there is some way to go. And
different client reps had different levels of self
reflection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">Hosting
an isolated OST workshop against this grain was very
ambitious, it was always going to be, no matter how we
conducted ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">And
perhaps 20% were very proactive, and led the bulk of the
work that occurred... they saved the day!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">But the
length of the OST was not enough for this leadership to
really be contagious and precipitate a productive
culture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">Or in
other words: we struggled to free up authorisation to
be more dynamic</span></b><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">Reading
your blog post Daniel, the idea of dynamic authorisation
would have been very useful earlier in the project.
Another way of looking at the project: we struggled to
free the space of ingrained authority to enable dynamic
authorisation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">There
were lots of other insights into how we could have done
it differently, but to me these were the fundamental
stumbling blocks for us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">Still,
they were not too big, and I'm pleased we made a good
start.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">My
favourite feedback was "thank you, this was the first
time I have been part of genuine engagement in more than
a decade in the sector" : )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Trebuchet
MS","sans-serif";color:#444444">Next
time, we will do better.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><br clear="all">
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:07 AM,
Daniel Mezick <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:dan@newtechusa.net" target="_blank">dan@newtechusa.net</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hi John, <br>
<br>
Yours is a very interesting story. <br>
<br>
You say: <br>
<br>
<br>
<i><span style="font-size:18.0pt">"...To be honest<b> I
am not sure</b> how I need to deal with this,
though <b>my strategy is to accept the authority</b>
for hosting the space in the next workshop, <b>obsolving
the department of their responsibility</b> to
manage the day."<br>
<br>
"...I don't think it is feasible for the obvious
authority candidates hosting something genuinely
participatory. <b>The relevant director has said
she doesn't want to speak formally and become The
Authority for the day</b>, a position I agree
with."</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
In the situation as described, it sounds like the org
is the very earliest stages of moving in a direction
of more open/participatory/inviting. <br>
<br>
Do you agree with this assessment?<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
If this assessment is correct, based on what you
describe, I would probably avoid attempting Open Space
in the canonical form whatsoever (as described in the
OST GUIDE) because the Sponsor role is vacant.
Unoccupied. And so, by my reckoning, if I understand
you right, a true Open Space event isn't even
possible, because the essential OST-Sponsor-role is in
fact not willingly occupied by anyone with enough
authority to play that essential role well. <br>
<br>
What's clear is that someone who could function as
OST-Sponsor is currently unwilling to do so. And so I
might try a "taster" or "demo" event instead, where
the goal is to <i>learn about Open Space in general</i>,
and do a <i>little</i> bit of "real" work too.
Especially if the allotted time a mere 1/2 day, I am
even more inclined to strongly favor this re-framing
of the stated goals.<br>
<br>
So the primary and stated goal for the "taster" is
learning about OST. Another goal for a short event
might be to see who shows up super-interested in the
art of Facilitation, and then offer to mentor those
who do self-select by showing interest. In this
manner some Facilitation capacity is developed inside
the org, to help with current meetings and processes.
Introducing Facilitation into typical meetings is a
easy and effective "culture hack".<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
For me, the total unwillingness of an obvious
candidate to occupy the Sponsor role is a huge warning
signal to slow down, pause, or even stop. <br>
<br>
Lots of people here have more experience than me, and
might be willing to lend you some of their expertise
regarding the authority dynamics of Facilitating an
OST event with the essential OST-Sponsor-role
completely vacant<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Kind Regards,<br>
Daniel <o:p></o:p></p>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">On 9/28/14 11:30 PM, John
Baxter wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<blockquote
style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am navigating some
challenging authority dynamics in a project at
the moment.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">I was brought in a week out
from the first of three forums, and asked to
'facilitate a codesign process' which was at
that stage a black box (with many hidden
expectations) scheduled into that event (1
hour before lunch and 1 hour afterwards).<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">It's a long journey, but
you can imagine how my role has changed as I
prepare for the third forum which I am hosting
in Open Space.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">The overall process is an
engagement between a government department and
their funded agencies. The most obvious
direct power dynamics are obvious, the
effective power and authority dynamics are
much more complex (though predictable).<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Department staff have
authority challenges as much as the
agencies. They are trying so hard to be
'neutral' and 'non controlling' that they
are effectively reinforcing their own
authority positions (which often have little
real correlation to the power, knowledge etc
that they imagine them to).<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">To be honest I am not
sure how I need to deal with this, though my
strategy is to accept the authority for
hosting the space in the next workshop,
obsolving the department of their
responsibility to manage the day.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">It has been interesting to
watch push back so far from agency reps who
are committed to participating, who are
genuinely engaged, but are playing to an
us-them tension that is getting in the way of
the shared work (and serves them no good ends
except protecting them from their own
responsibility). Stand-offishness is
gradually being resolved, though some pockets
are holding firm.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am crossing my fingers
for WS3 that we can traverse these and get
into Open Space without being pushed off the
bridge by the reactionary tension; and that
once on the other side, the department reps
can embrace Open Space and take responsibility
for their role.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">We will get across <i>as
long as I have the authority</i> to host the
space for them.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">I don't think it is
feasible for the obvious authority candidates
hosting something genuinely participatory.
The relevant director has said she doesn't
want to speak formally and become The
Authority for the day, a position I agree
with.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">But it does leave something
of a shell, where I am crossing my fingers
that our time together thus far affords me the
authority to host that space.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">I think we are ready. I am
bringing my harness and floaties just in case.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Harrison,<br>
<br>
So interesting how the Law of 2 Feet
authorizes me, and every other member of an
OST event, to go anywhere we may want to go.
<br>
<br>
Without asking anyone else for any kind of
"permission"... <br>
<br>
<br>
Reminds me of this past June, being in
Camden with you, and Ethelyn, and Harold,
and friends... when we were standing on the
porch of that Camden restaurant... waiting
for everyone to arrive, and assemble for
dinner... <br>
<br>
And as we wait, I notice there is this
convenient-looking, alternate entry-door...
into the dining area. <br>
<br>
And I say: "Hmm...I wonder if we are
authorized to use that door."<br>
<br>
And you say: <br>
<br>
"We're authorized to go Anywhere we want to
go."<br>
<br>
...and I like that.<br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
<br>
<br>
Picture of that place:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/DanielMezick/status/483054326265692161"
target="_blank">https://twitter.com/DanielMezick/status/483054326265692161</a><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/danielgullo/status/483434622009999360"
target="_blank">https://twitter.com/danielgullo/status/483434622009999360</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<img id="_x0000_i1034"
src="cid:part16.03070400.01040202@newtechusa.net"
border="0" height="303" width="225"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 9/25/14 4:58 PM,
Harrison Owen wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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You really did it! I think. Your
language comes from a place I
don’t know... which is to say that
I probably wouldn’t say what you
say in the way that you do (duh).
BUT when I run my “translator” it
comes out sounding pretty good!
So... I can’t help with the
questions you have raised.
Actually I think you are doing
pretty well on your own, and
(hopefully) will incite others to
a similarly riotous performance.
Thanks!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt">Greetings
to All, <br>
<br>
For the past several years I have
attended conferences of the Group
Relations community, and encouraged
others to do the same. I've studied
their literature, and harvested some
important learning as a result. One
of the things I have come to
understand a little bit better is
the role of "authority dynamics" in
self-organizing social systems.<br>
<br>
Link:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.akriceinstitute.org"
target="_blank">www.akriceinstitute.org</a><br>
<br>
Over the past several years I've
been using Open Space with intent to
improve the results of my work in
helping companies implement Agile
ideas in their organizations. We do
an initial Open Space, then the
folks get about 3 months to play
with Agile (we carefully use the
word "experimentation" with
management,) then we do another Open
Space after that, to inspect what
just happened across the enterprise.
The initial and subsequent Open
Space events form a "safe" container
or field in which the members can <i>learn</i>...
as they explore how to <i>improve</i>
together by <i>experimenting</i>
with new practices, and see if they
actually work. I call the process
Open Agile Adoption. <br>
<br>
Link:<br>
OpenAgileAdoption.com<br>
<br>
This seems to work pretty good. It
seems to "take the air out of" most
of the fear, most of the anxiety and
most of the worry that is created.
The key aspect is <i>consent</i>:
absolutely no one is forced to do
anything they are unwilling to do.
No one is <i>coerced</i> to <i>comply</i>.
Everyone is instead respectfully <i>invited</i>
to help <i>write</i> the story, and
be a <i>character</i> in the
story...of the contemplated process
change. Open Agile Adoption
encourages a spirit of
experimentation and play. <br>
<br>
The spirit of Open Space is the
spirit of freedom. Isn't it? In the
OST community, we discuss and talk a
lot about self-organization,
self-management and self-governance.
The Agile community also talks about
these ideas a lot. <br>
<br>
So I have some questions. What is
really going on during
self-organization in a social
system? What are the steps? What
information is being sent and
received? >From whom, and by
whom? Is the information about <i>authority</i>
important? How important? Can a
social system self organize without
regard to who has the right to do
what work? <i>How do decisions that
affect others get made in a
self-organizing system?</i> <br>
<br>
Who decides about <i>who decides</i>?
How important is the process of <i>authorization</i>
in a self-organizing system? Is
self-organization in large part the
process of dynamic authorization
(and <i>de-authorization</i>) in
real time?<br>
<br>
What <i>is </i>authorization? Can
self-organization occur without the
sending and receiving of
authorization data by and between
the members?<br>
<br>
Is Bruce Tuckman's
forming/storming/performing/adjourning
actually decomposing the <i>dynamics
of authorization</i> inside a
social system?<br>
<br>
The essay below attempts to answer
some of these difficult questions.
I'd love your thoughts on it. Will
you give it a look?<br>
<br>
<br>
Essay: Authority Distribution in
Open Space<br>
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<br>
<br>
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