Skye: You said “Each being/entity is self-directed and a closed
system.” I
believe that there in fact is no such thing as a closed system – we
may try
with sense of “purpose” to make a good container, but everything,
every
entity interacts with its environment as it “concresses (sp?)” –
comes into
being (Whitehead). I do believe in the power of “purpose” to affect
material reality. I’ve just started reading Deacon’s “Incomplete
Nature:
How mind emerged from matter” which tries to understand purpose and
direction from a scientific perspective. Don’t know where its
going yet but
Jeff Aitkin said it was good and he is on a very interesting healing
journey.
I have only read novels for two years so this journey is
interesting to me.
Wozniak tried to give the Apple mother board away to open systems
– Jobs
said “no way” and created a company that has become the biggest
financially
in the world.
Interesting.
Larry
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Larry, Thanks so much for that overview of the Jobs biography. I'd
like to
explore your question of how does what he did in his self-centered
ways,
lead to such productivity and quality of result? Where is the Open
Space
and self-organization? Each being/entity is self-directed and a
closed
system. (with the exception of energy consumption) Jobs could only be
himself. His "subjective aim" was in focus for him within himself
and he
and he alone could know if what was being created was coherent with
that
vision. There is an intensity that comes with "being on purpose"
and it is
contagious I believe. it also acts as inspiration for others to
act in ways
that call out "being on purpose/true to yourself" insisting on
what is
truth for your being nature. But there is an even deeper nature that
provides coherence for this process and that's just being
discovered - there
are laws of living/creative coherence - I believe that's what
Harrison and
so many here speak and point to that they experience through Open
Space
processes.
When people are called together under these conditions, something
wonderful
can happen as "the many become one and are increased by one" in the
words of
Whitehead. This is the creative process of life becoming = it
connects us
to our aliveness, we find meaning and fulfillment when we act in
concert
with our purpose and even more meaning when that purpose can be
joined with
others doing the same. The personal purpose within a greater
purpose that
has meaning, worthiness and even urgency which one could see in the
Apple
environment, provides deep satisfaction for each participant in the
vision.
If you look up the word compete, it means to "seek together."
There is a
value sense of satisfaction as we fulfill our own uniqueness of
being and
sense the connection to a greater whole. Any environment that
creates such
conditions for life - is as Harrison says, "how life works if we
let it."
Help! Sorry for the language - we are exploring a realm that needs
new
language and so we work here at Autognomics to find new ways of
talking
about these emerging discoveries of life, living processes and how
life
creates, knows itself - Open Space and Open Spacers are pointing out
beautifully that "process IS reality" - a value sensing process
and as we
share our own inner experiencing of this process we discover
hopefully the
bigger picture and ways of Life-itself, it's self-organizing and
connectedness. Thanks for reading this far, Skye
On Dec 3, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Larry Peterson wrote:
I just finished reading Walter Isaacson's book "Steve Jobs". The last
chapter has an interesting summary of some of the issues that his
successful
life raises particularly with regard to open versus closed IT product
systems.
Jobs chose to drive towards integrated, high quality, creative
design and
mostly closed products and systems. The openness is primarily for app
developers who can count on a consistent operating system across
products.
This makes it easier to develop high quality applications that you
know will
work on phones iPad or iPod my son says.
Jobs did not believe in market research because his ideas were beyond
anyone's expectations and he believed that this vision would create
the
products that people would want. He pushed his engineers and the
details of
his vision mercilessly. Even Isaacson saw that the technical term
assh*le
applied to him quite often. He was a self centered Zen Buddhist who
did not
appropriate the more subtle qualities of a caring person. He was
open to
learning as long as it came to be his idea.
His vision “opened space” for those who would work at their top
level to
realize it. When they didn’t he was mean and spiteful. And many
didn’t
understand his view of good design together with good technology.
He was
used to getting what he wanted, even as a child, and this provided
the
hubris to move forward. The space of silicon valley with its
nutrient rich
environment of engineers and garages and good schools made it
possible for
Apple to get going. His personal Zen Buddist journey provided the
self
development, but did not make him self aware, just confident in his
own
vision.
People around the world got engaged in his visionary leadership and
became
followers of Apple as a counter culture product, even when it
stumbled. It
certainly has worked in the market place to integrate superior
products that
then set the model for the others to come. Will Google and
Microsoft be
able to catch up?
As a PC person, I now find the products are quite amazing and the
integration makes it easy for me to connect my iPad with my iPhone
and
project pictures on Apple TV with out enormous effort and technical
know-how. The products and the integration are fun even if they are
more
costly. I think the book is a great read .
So where is the Open Space and the self-organization, other than at
the
beginning – maybe that was enough for real, committed if crazy
leadership to
emerge?
Larry
Larry Peterson & Associates in Transformation
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
la...@spiritedorg.com 416.653.4829 http://www.spiritedorg.com
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