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The Mandate of Holacracy at Zappos: http://newtechusa.net/agile/the-mandate-of-holacracy-at-zappos/ Sent from my iPhone On Mar 4, 2014, at 11:36 AM, "Harrison Owen" <hho...@verizon.net> wrote: > Wikipedia (as usual) has everything you wanted to know... go to -- > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy > > I can certainly imagine Open Space playing a role in Holacracies, and in > fact the "governance" in a Open Space could certainly be described as > "Holacratic" -- which is to say "ruling power" is totally distributed > amongst the participants. But there is a real difference. Holacracy in Open > Space is totally an emergent phenomenon. Nobody designed it, nobody > implements it -- it just shows up all by itself. Holacracy in places like > Zappos is a designed phenomenon. Doubtless it works pretty well, but it does > seem to me that they may be working a little too hard, creating something > that can and does happen all by itself. I think. > > 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 > > -----Original Message----- > From: oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org > [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Kári Gunnarsson > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 11:20 AM > To: World wide Open Space Technology email list > Subject: Re: [OSList] Open Space and Holacracy > > I heard that Holacracy is somehow based upon the principles of Open Space > and uses Open space for its implementation. > > On 4 March 2014 08:53, Rob van der Eyden > <robvanderey...@veranderarchitect.nl> wrote: >> Hello Kári, >> >> Interesting question. How do you see the link between Open space and >> Holacracy? >> >> Kind regards, Rob van der Eyden >> >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >> Van: oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org >> [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] Namens Kári Gunnarsson >> Verzonden: maandag 3 maart 2014 21:52 >> Aan: Open Space Forum >> Onderwerp: [OSList] Open Space and Holacracy >> >> There have been much talk about the relationship of the organizational >> chart and how Open Space operates. Recent compareson to me has been to >> link the new self-organizing authority and decision-making system >> called Holacracy >> see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy >> >> I wonder if there are stories on the use of Open space to transform >> more traditional system to one of Open Space based Holacracy? I would >> be happy to learn some of your experiences in this regard. >> >> -- >> Kári Gunnarsson >> kari.gunnars...@simnet.is >> gsm: +354 8645189 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSList mailing list >> To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe >> send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org >> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > > > -- > Kári Gunnarsson > kari.gunnars...@simnet.is > gsm: +354 8645189 > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an > email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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