<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">John,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Check out Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Engaging-Emergence-Turning-Upheaval-Opportunity/dp/1605095214" class="">http://www.amazon.com/Engaging-Emergence-Turning-Upheaval-Opportunity/dp/1605095214</a>. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It reflects a lot of reading on the science of complexity, time with masters, like Harrison and Anne Stadler, what I’ve learned from my own practice and from observing others.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Peggy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 28, 2014, at 8:11 PM, John Baxter via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Thanks for the steer Patricia, I will look into self advocacy.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">I hope I can produce something by the end of summer that would be very useful for challenges like yours with org management! (And mean me not writing this all out by hand)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Some of the loose ends I have collected so far that might be relevant (though they might also be rabbit holes)...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Some of the general concepts:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">- 'agile' management... in fact there is agile or lean <i class="">everything</i> these days... and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Creating-Kaizen-Culture-Organization-Breakthrough/dp/0071826858/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1385383786&sr=8-1&keywords=jon+miller+kaizen" class="">Kaizen</a>, and other concepts from software and manufacturing</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">- 'adaptive' leadership, management and everything else</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">- <a href="http://authenticorganizations.com/harquail/2013/12/11/whats-a-generative-organization/#comment-56686" class="">generative organisation</a> (and thriveability)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">More specific models:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">- Holocracy governance model (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR-8AOccyj4&feature=youtube_gdata_player" class="">TEDx video of main concept</a>, solid <a href="http://enterprise20blog.com/2014/01/09/holacracy-logical-step-evolution-organization/" class="">review in context of governance practices</a>)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">- <a href="http://falkvinge.net/2013/02/14/swarmwise-the-tactical-manual-to-changing-the-world-chapter-one/" class="">Swarmwise</a>, tactical manual for operating a Pirate Party (as per Sweden)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">- <a href="http://go.delicious.com/?id=63408X1518852&xs=1&url=http://vibrantcanada.ca/content/making-collective-impact-work&sref=https://delicious.com/jsbaxter/search/collective" class="">Collective Impact</a> (it's not specifically for organisations, but yes it is a model for governance-without-control, <a href="http://collectiveimpactaustralia.com/" class="">this has lots of good articles</a>)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">And relevant for 'how to be a manager'</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">- Harrison's <i class="">Wave Rider</i> (obviously)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">- Peter Block's <i class="">Stewardship</i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Interested to hear what references and ideas you find most useful Patricia.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Cheers</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" 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<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 2:31 AM, Patricia Haines <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:levelgreen2010@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">levelgreen2010@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">I like this idea. There's an important movement among and for adults with developmental disabilities called "self advocacy". This is self-organizing on individual, group and organizational levels.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm also interested in how OS and self-organization can play out in non-profit management. I'm reorganizing the Level Green Board, want to operate on OS principles. Any thoughts along such lines?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Patricia Gooding (aka Haines)<br class=""><br class="">Level Green Institute: fostering just & sustainable community through education and the arts, in the democratic spirit of the Grundtvigian Folk School</div><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class=""><br class="">On Nov 26, 2014, at 8:25 PM, John Baxter via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Hello facilitators of self organisation</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Let's take a moment to consider self organisation, as 'field' or 'practice'.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">I am scoping a summer project at the moment (in the southern hemisphere!).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">I have been reading and learning all I can about self org. There is less than I expected at the heart of self org practice, but much more than I realised in intersecting fields (e.g. in governance, democracy, community organising, management, change, systems...). There are also unanswered Qs about what 'self org' <i class="">is</i> (indeed, if it is anything at all).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">It might be worthwhile formalising this, through a focused research project, and sharing the results in a report or the like.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Possible focus questions that come to mind for me are</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">- what does someone need to know to say "I do self organisation"?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">- what would someone need to know to be an 'expert' in self org?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Would appreciate your perspective, as a practitioner-facilitator-fellow wave rider:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">What (if anything) do you think deserves to be done?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Who should be involved in doing it?</div><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Thank you for contributing to the quest!</div></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small" class=""><font color="#663300" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" class=""><b class=""><i class="">John Baxter</i></b></font></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)" class=""><i class="">Cocreation Consultant & CoCreate Adelaide Facilitator</i></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)" class=""><a href="http://www.jsbaxter.com.au/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" class="">jsbaxter.com.au</a> | <a href="http://cocreateadl.com/" target="_blank" class="">CoCreateADL.com</a></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small" class=""><font color="#444444" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif" class="">0405 447 829</font><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);display:inline" class=""> | </div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif" class="">@</span><a href="http://twitter.com/jsbaxter_" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif" target="_blank" class="">jsbaxter_</a></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small" class=""><i class="">Thank you to everyone who came, helped or spread the good word about <b class="">City Grill<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);display:inline"></div>!</b></i></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small" class=""><i class="">Summary and links: <a href="http://cocreateadl.com/localgov/grill-summary/" target="_blank" class="">cocreateadl.com/localgov/grill-summary/</a></i></div></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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