Thanks to Sam, Laura, Huiren, and Ron, and others for picking up the conversation and making various interesting connections between nations and organizations about "open". I just did a CEO interview the other day where the guy spoke passionately about their commitment to diversity--not so much ethnic/color--but "diversity of thought", and argued how that helps drive their company's innovation. But he was sharing more of a belief system than a scientific explanation.
To me, this kind of "diversity" is a cousin of "open"--and I say again, until the open org network gets serious about measuring/explaining, in some objective way, how diversity/open-ness/meritocracy and all the related qualities actually improve performance, we will remain just well-intentioned choir members sharing opinions about the best way to practice the religion đ On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Sam Knuth <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Laura - on the grow vs. shrink and die piece, I don't disagree with > you at all. What I mean is that within the system we have of publicly > traded companies (speaking of our organization specifically), that's the > paradigm that is established. I think we could have a very interesting (and > long!) discussion on this topic > > -Sam > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 9:40 AM, Laura Hilliger <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Interesting discussion. I think this: >> >> "The driving truth is that if we don't grow, we will shrink and die.â >> >> and this >> >> "The average rate of GDP growth in countries with shrinking working-age >> populations is *only* 1.5%.â (Emphasis mine) >> >> are misnomers. This idea âgrowth is good" is aggressively promoted >> because the economic systems that support it (e.g. systems based on >> consumerism), depend on growth as a metric for success. What it doesnât >> take into account is the happiness and well-being of the people inside the >> system. Itâs been generally established that countries with lower GDP have >> equal or higher levels of happiness compared with countries with high GDP. >> If we had data(!) we could start looking at this at an organizational level. >> >> Greenpeace is doing a research and strategy around mindsets that are >> prevalent in our society. The âinfinite growth is possible and goodâ mind >> set is one that the ecological movement is desperately trying to change as >> the growth-driven consumerism is the root cause of almost all environmental >> issues. Maybe itâs better to say âIf we donât change, we will shrink and >> die.â Even that might depend â if you think about tribal cultures that >> stayed the same way for hundreds and hundreds of years, only to die out >> when change was introduced. >> >> None of this is a dichotomy, of course. Weâre a group of people who are >> hyper aware of the nuance (this pleases me :) >> >> Rands wrote an article in 2014 that Iâve shared a thousand times. Itâs >> specifically about cultural identity, the shifting of culture when new >> people are introduced, and the fear that can elicit â He called it âOld >> Guard, New Guardâ. >> >> http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-old-guard/ >> >> âlaura >> >> Laura Hilliger >> Zythepsary (part of the We Are Open Co-op <http://weareopen.coop>) >> @epilepticrabbit <http://twitter.com/epilepticrabbit> >> >> >> >> On Mar 24, 2017, at 12:44 PM, Sam Knuth <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thank you, Brook for keeping us engaged with deep topics! >> >> I like the comparison/contrast of our work on "open" culture with what's >> happening in the global political climate right now. I'm surprised I hadn't >> made this connection myself now that I think about it. I see a lot of >> parallels. Working in an organization that has been "open" since its >> founding, it does become part of the identity of the people working in the >> organization. But, as the organization grows, and welcomes more and more >> new people ("immigrants" - never made that analogy before), we see a lot of >> fears among some that our culture will change or will become "like them" >> instead of "them" becoming "like us". Other people welcome the newcomers >> and embrace what we can learn from them, accepting that how we've always >> done things might not be the best way. The driving truth is that if we >> don't grow, we will shrink and die. In a company, it's easier to convince >> people of this truth, and people can more easily leave if they really don't >> like the direction we're heading (whereas as much as liberal American's >> joke about moving to Canada, doing so is actually quite difficult). >> >> As I'm writing this and thinking about the comparison, I'm seeing a lot >> of similar challenges but not easy answers or ways to apply our learnings >> to broader society or public policy at a national level. My personal >> feeling here is that looking at this kind of data doesn't sway people. >> Companies, I think, are much more receptive to convincing data than >> citizens. It's more about how people feel in relation to deeply ingrained >> cultural identity. Those feelings are so strong that they result in the >> election of leaders who take an extreme stance on one end of the spectrum >> or the other. >> >> Great food for thought! >> >> Sam >> >> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Brook Manville < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear Open enthusiasts....recent opinion piece in WSJ by columnist Bret >>> Stephens caught my eye (below)--talking about immigration, open borders, >>> greater diversity and innovation; and imply such things should be more part >>> of today's policy debates (but aren't). There are some "meta" themes about >>> "open" at the national level that might deserve more attention among us. At >>> a minimum, it makes for some interesting compare and contrast discussion, >>> e.g. how much of the culture-building implied by best open organizations >>> should be/could be applied to a nation's public policy? What is the data >>> about innovation and other measures of "good" between companies that are >>> more open versus those that are less? etc...Regards >>> >>> Other Peopleâs BabiesâIf the U.S. slipped into demographic decline like >>> Japan, it would tear itself apart. >>> [image: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with President Trump in West >>> Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 10.] >>> Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with President Trump in West Palm >>> Beach, Fla., Feb. 10. PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS >>> <https://www.wsj.com/articles/other-peoples-babies-1490050955> >>> By >>> BRET STEPHENS >>> March 20, 2017 7:02 p.m. ET >>> 786 COMMENTS >>> <https://www.wsj.com/articles/other-peoples-babies-1490050955#livefyre-toggle-SB10780801779306074119304583034393448048174> >>> >>> *Tokyo* >>> >>> Japan is an excellent place to test the proposition that countries do >>> better with low levels of immigration. In a land of 127 million people, >>> there are just over two million foreign residents, and only a third of them >>> are here for the long term. The number of illegal immigrants, which peaked >>> at a modest 300,000 in the early 1990s, is down by 80%. >>> >>> As for refugees, in 2016, Tokyo entertained 10,000 requests >>> <http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20170211/p2g/00m/0dm/008000c> for >>> asylum. It accepted a grand total of 28. Steve Bannon would smile. >>> >>> >>> The result, say immigration restrictionists, is plain to see. Japanâs >>> crime and drug-use rates are famously low. Life expectancy is famously >>> high. Japanese students put their American peers to shame on international >>> tests. The unemployment rate clocks in at 3.1%. All this is supposed to be >>> a function of a homogenous society with a high degree of cultural >>> cohesionâthe antithesis of cacophonous, multiethnic America. >>> >>> Just one problem: The Japanese have lost their appetite for >>> reproduction. To steal a line from Steve King, the GOP congressman from >>> Iowa, the only way they can save their civilization is with âsomebody >>> elseâs babies.â >>> >>> Japanâs population shrank by nearly a million between 2010 and 2015, the >>> first absolute decline since census-taking began in the 1920s. On current >>> trend <http://www.ipss.go.jp/site-ad/index_english/esuikei/gh2401e.asp> the >>> population will fall to 97 million by the middle of the century. Barely 10% >>> of Japanese will be children. The rest of the population will divide almost >>> evenly between working-age adults and the elderly. >>> >>> Imagine yourself as a 35-year-old Japanese salary man. You can expect >>> that an ever-larger share of your paycheck will go to the government to >>> fund the pensions and health care of your parentsâwho, at 70, can >>> reasonably expect to live another 10 or 15 years, and who arenât likely to >>> vote for politicians promising to strip their entitlements. >>> >>> Being Japanese, you were raised to make financial sacrifices for your >>> elders, even if it means not having children of your own. Besides, itâs >>> hard to want children with the economy in such bad shape. As Morgan >>> Stanley <http://quotes.wsj.com/MS>âs Ruchir Sharma has noted >>> <https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2016-02-15/demographics-stagnation>, >>> lousy demographics mean a lousy economy: The average rate of GDP growth in >>> countries with shrinking working-age populations is only 1.5%. In 2016, >>> Japanâs growth rate was 1%âand that was a relatively good year by recent >>> standards. >>> >>> What if the government paid you to have babies? Alas, along with >>> millions of your countrymen, you suffer from what the Japanese call >>> <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex> >>> âcelibacy >>> syndromeâ and arenât interested in sex, never mind procreation. Youâre also >>> unhappy: In 2016, Japan ranked 53rd on the U.N.âs World Happiness Report, a >>> notch above Kazakhstan but below El Salvador and Uzbekistan. >>> >>> So Japan is in trouble, and the government knows it. Prime >>> Minister Shinzo Abe has tinkered with formulas to bring in lower-skilled >>> temporary workers for housecleaning and farm jobs, and he has promoted >>> various tax breaks and subsidies to ease the burden of raising children and >>> caring for aging parents. >>> >>> But whatever their other benefits, âpro-familyâ policies wonât reverse >>> the demographic trend. Only large-scale immigration can do that, and the >>> Japanese wonât countenance it. The flip side of cohesion is exclusion. The >>> consequence of exclusion is decline. >>> >>> Which brings us back to Mr. King and the U.S. immigration debates. A >>> decade ago, Americaâs fertility rate, at 2.12 children for every woman, was >>> just above the replacement rate. That meant there could be modest >>> population growth without immigration. But the fertility rate has since >>> fallen: Itâs now below replacement and at an all-time low >>> <http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/06/07/behind-the-ongoing-u-s-baby-bust-in-5-charts/> >>> . >>> >>> Without immigration, our demographic destiny would become Japanese. But >>> our culture wouldnât, leaving us with the worst of both worlds: economic >>> stagnation without social stability. Multiethnic America would tear itself >>> to pieces fighting over redistribution rights to the shrinking national pie. >>> >>> This doesnât have to be our fate. Though it may be news to Mr. King, >>> immigrants arenât a threat to American civilization. They are our >>> civilizationâbearers of a forward-looking notion of identity based on what >>> people wish to become, not who they once were. Among those immigrants are >>> 30% of all American Nobel Prize winners and the founders of 90 of our >>> Fortune 500 companiesâa figure that more than doubles when you include >>> companies founded by the children of immigrants. If immigration means >>> change, it forces dynamism. America is literally unimaginable without it. >>> >>> Every virtue has its defect and vice versa. The Japanese are in the >>> process of discovering that the social values that once helped launch their >>> developmentâloyalty, self-sacrifice, harmonyânow inhibit it. Americans may >>> need reminding that the culture of openness about which conservatives so >>> often complain is our abiding strength. Openness to different ideas, >>> foreign goods and new people. And their babiesâwho, whatever else Mr. King >>> might think, are also made in Godâs image. >>> >>> *Write [email protected] <[email protected]>.* >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Bryan Behrenshausen < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> ### Editor's Note ### >>>> >>>> Hi, friends! It's been another exciting, whirlwind week here in OpenOrg >>>> Land. Yesterday, we announced the next book in the Open Organization >>>> book seriesâthis one devoted to open principles in the IT organization. >>>> We're building it the open source way, and (if you missed the >>>> announcement) you can see the links below for more details about getting >>>> involved. >>>> >>>> Today we're publishing the second half of Ajinkya Pawar's two-part >>>> series on open agencies. In this article, Ajinkya lays out a concrete >>>> and specific plan for creating the agency of the future. >>>> >>>> âB >>>> >>>> ### New Today ### >>>> >>>> Ajinkya Pawar: What does an ad agency's source code look like? >>>> >>>> https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/3/how-build-open-ad-agency >>>> >>>> red.ht/2o855Xy >>>> >>>> Sample social media: >>>> >>>> If an ad agency is to go open source, then what's its source code? >>>> @thejinxedone red.ht/2o855Xy #TheOpenOrg >>>> >>>> .@thejinxedone explains exactly how to build an open ad agency. What are >>>> you waiting for? red.ht/2o855Xy #TheOpenOrg >>>> >>>> .@thejinxedone with five benefits to turning your ad agency into >>>> #TheOpenOrg: red.ht/2o855Xy >>>> >>>> >>>> ### Previously Published ### >>>> >>>> Bryan Behrenshausen: "Help us write the next IT culture book" >>>> >>>> https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/3/announcing-it- >>>> culture-book >>>> >>>> red.ht/2nmnfYB >>>> >>>> First day page views: 157 >>>> >>>> Sample social media: >>>> >>>> Help us write the next great book on IT cultureâin the open: >>>> red.ht/2nmnfYB #TheOpenOrg >>>> >>>> We're writing a book at the intersection of #TheOpenOrg and #IT culture. >>>> You can help: red.ht/2nmnfYB >>>> >>>> The next book in #TheOpenOrg book series is under active development. >>>> Pull requests welcome: red.ht/2nmnfYB >>>> >>>> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >>>> >>>> Simon Phipps: "7 ways to discuss legal matters with an open community" >>>> >>>> https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/3/legal-matters-community >>>> >>>> First day page views: 131 >>>> >>>> ### Site Stats ### >>>> >>>> Page views yesterday: 753 >>>> Total page views for the month: 12,213 >>>> Page views from newsletter: 106 >>>> >>>> Leaders Manual downloads: 5 >>>> Leaders Manual downloads for the month: 71 >>>> >>>> Catalyst-In-Chief downloads: 4 >>>> Total Catalyst-In-Chief downloads for the month: 30 >>>> >>>> Field Guide downloads: 2 >>>> Total Field Guide downloads for the month: 37 >>>> >>>> ### Social Media Stats ### >>>> >>>> @TheOpenOrg Twitter followers: 3,918 (+1) >>>> @JWhitehurst Twitter followers: 15,204 (+2) >>>> Facebook likes: 526 (+0) >>>> >>>> ### Full Daily Stats ### >>>> >>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/196RzNrhAiHRBcZHtrDYY >>>> Ky0I9m8Bqa67K9OOPbDxuME/edit?pli=1#gid=46325027 >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Openorg-list mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/openorg-list >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *Brook Manville* >>> *Principal, Brook Manville LLC* >>> >>> *http://www.brookmanville.com/ <http://www.brookmanville.com/>* >>> *Twitter* <https://twitter.com/> >>> *@brookmanville* >>> *blogging at: http://www.forbes.com/sites/brookmanville/ >>> <http://www.forbes.com/sites/brookmanville/>* >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Openorg-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/openorg-list >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Sam Knuth >> Director, Customer Content Services >> Red Hat, Inc >> Mobile: +1 612-840-1785 <(612)%20840-1785> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openorg-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/openorg-list >> >> >> > > > -- > Sam Knuth > Director, Customer Content Services > Red Hat, Inc > Mobile: +1 612-840-1785 <(612)%20840-1785> > -- *Brook Manville* *Principal, Brook Manville LLC* *http://www.brookmanville.com/ <http://www.brookmanville.com/>* *Twitter* <https://twitter.com/> *@brookmanville* *blogging at: http://www.forbes.com/sites/brookmanville/ <http://www.forbes.com/sites/brookmanville/>*
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