From NYTimes Friedman today spoke of two revolutions and thought
this spoke to Open Space in real way.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-one-country-
two-revolutions.html
Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce.com, a cloud-based software
provider, describes this phase of the I.T. revolution with the
acronym SOCIAL. S, he says, is for speed — everything is now
happening faster. O, he says, stands for open. If you don’t have an
open environment inside your company or country, these new tools will
blow you wide open. C is for collaboration because this revolution
enables people to organize themselves within companies and societies
into loosely coupled teams to take on any kind of challenges — from
designing a new product to taking down a government. I is for
individuals, who are able to reach around the globe to start
something or collaborate on something farther, faster, deeper,
cheaper than ever before — as individuals.
A is for alignment. “There has never been a more important time to
have all your ships sailing in the same direction,” said Benioff.
“The power of social media is that it is easier than ever to both
articulate, and reinforce, the vision and values that create and
inspire alignment.” And L is for the leadership that does that.
Leadership in a SOCIAL world has to be a mix of bottom-up and top-
down. Leaders need to inspire, enable and empower everything coming
up from below in a company or a social movement and then edit and
sculpt it with a vision from above into a final product.
The great thing about the new I.T. revolution, says Jeff Weiner, the
C.E.O. of LinkedIn, is that “it makes it easier and cheaper than ever
for anyone anywhere to be an entrepreneur” and to have access to all
the best infrastructure of innovation. “And despite all of our
challenges,” he adds, “it is happening here in America.”
Skye Hirst, PhD
The Autognomics Institute
Perceiving the Process Nature of Life-itself
[email protected]
www.autognomics.org
Twitter @autognomics
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