Hi Harrison, Thank you for your answer
What do you mean exactely with the law of 2 feet ? Christine Koehler 06 13 28 71 38 Le 9 janv. 2014 à 17:27, "Harrison Owen" <[email protected]> a écrit : > I’m awake now (Thank you Michael). And Christine – to your questions and my > thoughts. > > “In a self -organized system, how do you keep the organization coherent as a > whole ? > How do you make decisions that concern the whole organization ?” > > I think the simple answer may be, “You don’t (make decisions or maintain > coherency). The System does – which is in a way the essence of > self-organization. I think one way of understanding self organization is that > it is the systemic response to a changing environment in order to maintain > internal and external coherence... a complicated way of saying that the > system wants to get along in the world in a positive fashion. Part of > maintaining that systemic coherence is by making a whole bunch of decisions – > none, or few, of which are made by a vote or executive dictate. A powerful > mechanism in this regard is our old friend, “The Law of Two feet.” – I think. > > ho > > > Harrison Owen > 7808 River Falls Dr. > Potomac, MD 20854 > USA > > 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) > Camden, Maine 04843 > > Phone 301-365-2093 > (summer) 207-763-3261 > > www.openspaceworld.com > www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST > Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of christine koehler > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 5:30 PM > To: World wide Open Space Technology email list > Subject: Re: [OSList] From linkedin today > > Harrison, > > In a self -organized system, how do you keep the organization coherent as a > whole ? > How do you make decisions that concern the whole organization ? > > Christine > > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Harrison Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul – This piece from Zappos is interesting indeed. Though I must say I do > wonder why the Zapposites feel it necessary to organize a self organizing > system? As they say, “In a city, people and businesses are self-organizing.” > I agree, and why not just follow the beaten path? Holarchy is a wonderful > concept, and a good description of what I think I experience in a self > organizing system. But why go for a knock-off when you can have the original? > Just let (invite) the system to self organize. It will work better, and costs > a lot less effort. As Stuart Kauffman might say, “order for free.” > > Harrison > > Harrison Owen > 7808 River Falls Dr. > Potomac, MD 20854 > USA > > 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) > Camden, Maine 04843 > > Phone 301-365-2093 > (summer) 207-763-3261 > > www.openspaceworld.com > www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST > Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Nunesdea > Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 4:51 PM > To: World wide Open Space Technology email list > Subject: [OSList] From linkedin today > > Research shows that every time the size of a city doubles, innovation or > productivity per resident increases by 15 percent. But when companies get > bigger, innovation or productivity per employee generally goes down. So we're > trying to figure out how to structure Zappos more like a city, and less like > a bureaucratic corporation. In a city, people and businesses are > self-organizing. We're trying to do the same thing by switching from a normal > hierarchical structure to a system called Holacracy, which enables employees > to act more like entrepreneurs and self-direct their work instead of > reporting to a manager who tells them what to do. > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pam-ross/workplace-reinvention_b_4541805.html#! > > From my iPad > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > > > > -- > > Executive Coach, Médiateur > www.christine-koehler.fr > Tel : 06 13 28 71 38 > Fax : 09 72 32 36 65 > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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