Daniel... You really did it! I think. Your language comes from a place I don't know... which is to say that I probably wouldn't say what you say in the way that you do (duh). BUT when I run my "translator" it comes out sounding pretty good! So... I can't help with the questions you have raised. Actually I think you are doing pretty well on your own, and (hopefully) will incite others to a similarly riotous performance. Thanks!
Harrison Winter Address 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 301-365-2093 Summer Address 189 Beaucaire Ave. Camden, ME 04843 207-763-3261 Websites www.openspaceworld.com www.ho-image.com OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org From: OSList [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Mezick via OSList Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 9:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [OSList] Authority Distribution in Open Space Greetings to All, For the past several years I have attended conferences of the Group Relations community, and encouraged others to do the same. I've studied their literature, and harvested some important learning as a result. One of the things I have come to understand a little bit better is the role of "authority dynamics" in self-organizing social systems. Link: www.akriceinstitute.org Over the past several years I've been using Open Space with intent to improve the results of my work in helping companies implement Agile ideas in their organizations. We do an initial Open Space, then the folks get about 3 months to play with Agile (we carefully use the word "experimentation" with management,) then we do another Open Space after that, to inspect what just happened across the enterprise. The initial and subsequent Open Space events form a "safe" container or field in which the members can learn... as they explore how to improve together by experimenting with new practices, and see if they actually work. I call the process Open Agile Adoption. Link: OpenAgileAdoption.com This seems to work pretty good. It seems to "take the air out of" most of the fear, most of the anxiety and most of the worry that is created. The key aspect is consent: absolutely no one is forced to do anything they are unwilling to do. No one is coerced to comply. Everyone is instead respectfully invited to help write the story, and be a character in the story...of the contemplated process change. Open Agile Adoption encourages a spirit of experimentation and play. The spirit of Open Space is the spirit of freedom. Isn't it? In the OST community, we discuss and talk a lot about self-organization, self-management and self-governance. The Agile community also talks about these ideas a lot. So I have some questions. What is really going on during self-organization in a social system? What are the steps? What information is being sent and received? From whom, and by whom? Is the information about authority important? How important? Can a social system self organize without regard to who has the right to do what work? How do decisions that affect others get made in a self-organizing system? Who decides about who decides? How important is the process of authorization in a self-organizing system? Is self-organization in large part the process of dynamic authorization (and de-authorization) in real time? What is authorization? Can self-organization occur without the sending and receiving of authorization data by and between the members? Is Bruce Tuckman's forming/storming/performing/adjourning actually decomposing the dynamics of authorization inside a social system? The essay below attempts to answer some of these difficult questions. I'd love your thoughts on it. Will you give it a look? Essay: Authority Distribution in Open Space http://newtechusa.net/agile/authority-distribution-in-open-space/ Kind Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Mezick, President New Technology Solutions Inc. (203) 915 7248 (cell) Bio <http://newtechusa.net/dan-mezick/> . <http://newtechusa.net/blog/> Blog. <http://twitter.com/#%21/danmezick/> Twitter. Examine my new book: <http://newtechusa.net/about/the-culture-game-book/> The Culture Game : Tools for the Agile Manager. Explore Agile Team <http://newtechusa.net/services/agile-scrum-training/> Training and <http://newtechusa.net/services/agile-scrum-coaching/> Coaching. Explore the <http://newtechusa.net/user-groups/ma/> Agile Boston Community.
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