Including this one?

On 10/16/14 2:15 PM, paul levy via OSList wrote:
I'd just venture to add a third to Harrison's first two...

 1) All Systems are Open. 2) All Systems are self organizing.

And 3. All "all statements" are possibly self-limiting

Best regards

Paul Levy


On Thursday, 16 October 2014, Harrison Owen via OSList <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    John -- Thank you, Thank you for all the rich stuff! Sort of a
    Tidal Wave, but that's when it gets fun, albeit a tad difficult to
    keep track of the sundry bits and pieces J

    Picking Just One:   "But I can't get past the feeling that /there
    are lots of barriers to the openness of space, and to self
    organisation/." Absolutely. And if we were to put that into the
    language of the trade (Complexity Theorists and the like) we would
    be talking about "system constraints." But as I understand it,
    that does not mean that Self Organization is no longer operative.
    And in fact the System Constraints are part and parcel of the
    process, a very important part. I think it goes something like this --

    I have found myself coming to  two conclusions, or better yet
    observations. 1) All Systems are Open. 2) All Systems are self
    organizing.

    As Open Systems, we, in all permutations of our "us-ness" --
    businesses, countries, families, planets, etc) are open to, and
    impacted by, all other systems. Sometimes a lot, and sometimes a
    little, but in our cosmos there is no safe, protected place.
    Everything is related to everything else, and we are no exception.
    If true, this has a number of implications. First of all the
    environment in which we exist is so complex, fast moving and
    inter-connected we can't even think at that level. Secondly, what
    you can't even think about, you can't control. So the notion that
    somebody is actually "in charge/in control" is not just a silly
    idea, it is delusional. 3) System preservation/growth depends on
    our  ability to navigate this environment. And it is a good
    news/bad news situation. Sometimes the impacts drive us in new and
    creative directions, and open up new opportunities which are ours
    if we respond appropriately. At other times the impacts drive us
    to the wall, and it's Game over. Another word is Death. If this
    story is in any ways valid, it would seem like Mission Impossible.
    And yet this story has seemingly been going on for 13.7 Billion
    years and we are still here to complain about it. How could that be?

    All Systems are Self Organizing -- Self Organization is in fact
    the mechanism whereby we navigate the environment, and all systems
    do it, I think. And when they stop doing it, they disappear. Self
    Organization is not the product of some CEO or executive
    committee. After all, they really haven't been around for all that
    long. Self Organization is the product of the total system in all
    of its aspects and bits and pieces. How all that works has been a
    matter of stunning discovery over the past 40 years or so. I doubt
    we have it all right, but I do think we may have the major
    elements of understanding in place. The outline goes something
    like this -- a) Steady State b) Chaos c) A bifurcation to either
    dissipation (poof) or reconstitution at new and higher levels of
    order. Of course you have to fill in a lot of the blanks, and
    there is a massive literature attempting to do just that. But I do
    believe we have enough to get started with some basic
    observations. It really is a Whole System affair, in which all
    elements must work together, and no element has an /a priori/
    claim to centrality. In a business this could mean that the dumb
    question of an intern could just open the doors for the future.
    You just don't know. But you do know that an organization's future
    directly relates to its capacity to bring total system assets to
    bear on emergent challenges and opportunities quickly and
    effectively. It is always tempting to  try and "hedge the bet"
    with some plan, policy or procedure, but it worthwhile noting that
    the tighter (more constraining) the plan, the greater the
    likelihood of failure. It's not that the plan was bad... but
    unfortunately the challenge or opportunity came from a different
    direction, and all our eggs were in one basket -- the wrong one.

    So we have a very existential question -- How do we assure
    sufficient room (dare I say Space?) so that the infinite elements
    of any organization may quickly and effectively align to meet new
    challenges and opportunities -- recognizing in advance that we can
    never know what will be required?

    Open Space Technology is just a bit player in all of this, but
    good old OST can be useful none the less both as a natural
    laboratory to explore what is going on, and also as an effective
    intervention to encourage the appearance of the elemental power of
    self organization, particularly when it seems blocked and
    constrained.  There are no guarantees of course, and it may well
    be that The Organization's time is now: Game Over. But the chances
    of renewal are pretty good, at least that has been my experience.
    And no matter what, the magic sauce is not OST -- but the power of
    self organization. So you could say, just as a way of speaking,
    "It's all Open Space." But that's just a joke, son.

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    I have knots about empowerment, and the ubiquitous openness of
    space.  These knots are about to inspire a rant.

    These knots, I should start with, are not entirely the result of
    this present discussion thread - it is just this discussion that
    prompts me to speak.

    I think I understand Harrison, if you suggest that
    self-organisation is more common than we realise... if not
    ubiquitous, omnipresent, then at least that we can fruitfully
    challenge the assumption that formal and top-down organisation
    dominates how things get done.

    But I can't get past the feeling that /there are lots of barriers
    to the openness of space, and to self organisation/.  Everywhere
    and all the time.  In my recent work, mental barriers by all
    involved about authority and role relationships.  My personal
    barriers around trying too hard to "empower".  My client's
    patronising assumptions about the "capacity" and "maturity" of
    "the sector".  Information asymmetries.

    So I get really conflicted when anyone starts saying "well space
    is open all the time" (implication: 'so chill out cos there's
    nothing you need to do').

    I am also conflicted about stepping back from the goal of
    empowerment, as if everybody else needs to just step into open
    space and take responsibility.

    Yes - many people don't realise the power that they have.  (In my
    last project; nobody seemed to quite buy into the fact that /they
    could directly author the document that they were trying to
    influence/.)

    But it is also patronising to suggest that empowerment lies in
    just helping people to see how powerful they are... because many
    people /don't/ have the power that we or they might like.  To
    suggest that people have the power and just don't use it... that
    effectively blames them for their situation, and washes our hands
    of responsibility.

    The biggest barrier to group change I see time and time again is
    authority figures who believe others need to change, not
    themselves.  (Most commonly, that their employees need to "be
    empowered", and that they need to manage a culture change program
    to get there... or better yet, that HR needs to manage the change
    program, while we are busy getting the real work done.)

    I don't pretend that empowerment is something that can be done to
    other people (patronising), but I do firmly believe that we all
    first need to look to ourselves and what we need to do to play our
    role making such a future possible.  And, in fact, that /this is
    all that we can ever do/.

    Maybe the wisdom in what you say Harrison is that we do this by
    focusing on respect first, as a productive way to enable empowerment.

    Maybe I am picking on the wrong things and have misunderstood
    them, and I apologise if I have been critical.  But I also see a
    lot of things said that make me uncomfortable, that knot me up.
    Again, most of these things are from my memory, not the present
    discussion.  While my memory might not be the best, I'm sure it is
    based on something.

    Thank you all for your patience and for being in this discussion


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    On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Harrison Owen <[email protected]
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    John -- I'm rather curious what you meant by "The overall project
    was more complicated than OST?" My confusion comes in part from my
    experience that complexity is actually an essential precondition
    for OST, or more exactly the effective operation of self
    organization. The essential pre-conditions as I have experienced
    the are: A Real business issue (something that people really care
    about). High levels of complexity such that no single person or
    group has a prayer of figuring it out. High levels of diversity in
    terms of people and points of view. Lots of passion and conflict.
    And a decision time of yesterday (urgency). Given these 5
    conditions, self organization in the more formal setting of OST or
    as a natural occurrence just seems to happen... unless...And this
    may be the point of problem... It is arbitrarily constrained...
    which usually means that somebody already has the
    plan/program/design and they are just looking for buy-in or (worst
    case) they are simply trying to sugar coat the pill, and make it
    seem like the folks are creating something, when in fact the cake
    is already baked.

    A clue to the dilemma may be in the phrase, "I struggled to help
    the client (the funding body) to really 'empower'..." I know we
    talk a lot about empowerment, but I have come to the conclusion
    that it is really a red herring, and most painfully so in those
    situations where you actually try to do it. Sounds odd, I guess,
    but think about it. If I empower you...you are in my power. And
    the more I try to empower you the worse it gets. Real empowerment,
    in my book, is not an act that we (or somebody) do, but an
    acknowledgement of a pre-existing condition...you are powerful. Of
    course I might encourage you a bit to be as powerful as you are,
    but it is not something I can give you. You must claim it for
    yourself. Strange as it may seem, I find the notion of
    "empowerment" to be just the opposite of that fundament of
    effective working relationships (or any relationship) RESPECT. And
    I suspect that it is precisely here that the fickle finger of fate
    is pointing to the critical issue.

    Another word that fits in here for me is "Patronizing." Everything
    may sound super nice, and all the proper and correct words may be
    spoken, but if the implication is that the folks (participants)
    really do not have the competence or ability to deal with the
    issues, it is fairly predictable that they will not bother to try.
    Or if they "try" it will be pretty much of a pro forma situation.
    Sound familiar?

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    Hi Daniel.  Thanks for your considered response.

    I will try to keep my response in line with the topic.... but
    expect it may meander.

    The OST day I was preparing for has since come and gone.

    I decided in the end to least give OST a crack and see what happened.

    It didn't go very well; but it also went well enough (vis overall
    project goals, and client expectations), so I don't feel so bad
    about it... even if I had personally envisaged more.

    I am not one to worry about the cannon... which means sometimes I
    break things, as I did this time. There was still an (informal)
    sponsor, the one that sent the invites.  They just did not have a
    presence on the day.  Thank you Daniel as you did make me think
    critically about the strength of my role as host.  I think I dealt
    with that through my introduction to the day; and as it turns out
    the authority to host was not an issue.

    But as it turns out, that was not really the biggest challenge!

    The main lessons I took away about what contributed to the average
    result:

    *There needs to be clear, compelling shared work.*

    The overall project was more complicated than OST, so it wasn't
    clear what turning up actually meant, and I think many did not
    turn up on the basis of wanting to resolve a shared challenge (the
    work), as you might expect for OST.   In straight OST terms, you
    could say this was an issue of invitation, but really it was many
    things.

    So the group was interesting.  They had the heart, but not the
will. They were committed, but without ownership of the result. I've seen this a lot in the community engagement field, but
    nowhere that I have used (or seen) OST.

    I thought about this a lot, I thought it might have been about the
    invitation and self-selection; but at the end of the day I think
    it comes down to the sense of (and invitation in to) shared work.

    *It is super hard to dissolve ingrained power and authority
    relationships in the short term.  These can't be sidestepped by an
    external facilitator.*

    I struggled to help the client (the funding body) to really
    'empower'. They talked about it and genuinely want to, but old
    habits and mental models don't change overnight.  They really
    struggled to push beyond managing the process as superiours (to a
    set of subordinate participants). This is 'empowerment' within a
    patriarchal system, and it doesn't work.  It felt very yucky at times.

    A curious side effect of this partriarchal 'empowerment' was an
    unwillingness to be clear about the work ("we want to be open and
    let them lead the process" they would say... I got the client to
    agree that /the/y were clearly the leaders, but we didn't quite
    work out how to put that into practice).

    Over the course of the engagement, we all took baby steps together
    that invest in their (/our) capacity to really work together in
    future.  They learned a LOT in a short period of time, and so did
    I, but it was too short.  By the end of the project I had the
    client calling me up to ask how they could reword things so they
    didn't reflect a control response. : )  That was good, but
obviously if they need me for this then there is some way to go. And different client reps had different levels of self reflection.

    Hosting an isolated OST workshop against this grain was very
    ambitious, it was always going to be, no matter how we conducted
    ourselves.

    And perhaps 20% were very proactive, and led the bulk of the work
    that occurred... they saved the day!

    But the length of the OST was not enough for this leadership to
    really be contagious and precipitate a productive culture.

    *Or in other words: we struggled to free up authorisation to be
    more dynamic*

    Reading your blog post Daniel, the idea of dynamic authorisation
    would have been very useful earlier in the project. Another way of
    looking at the project: we struggled to free the space of
    ingrained authority to enable dynamic authorisation.

    There were lots of other insights into how we could have done it
    differently, but to me these were the fundamental stumbling blocks
    for us.

    Still, they were not too big, and I'm pleased we made a good start.

    My favourite feedback was "thank you, this was the first time I
    have been part of genuine engagement in more than a decade in the
    sector" : )

    Next time, we will do better.


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    On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Daniel Mezick
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    Hi John,

    Yours is a very interesting story.

    You say:


    /"...To be honest*I am not sure* how I need to deal with this,
    though *my strategy is to accept the authority* for hosting the
    space in the next workshop, *obsolving the department of their
    responsibility* to manage the day."

    "...I don't think it is feasible for the obvious authority
    candidates hosting something genuinely participatory. *The
    relevant director has said she doesn't want to speak formally and
    become The Authority for the day*, a position I agree with."/





    In the situation as described, it sounds like the org is the very
    earliest stages of moving in a direction of more
    open/participatory/inviting.

    Do you agree with this assessment?



    If this assessment is correct, based on what you describe, I would
    probably avoid attempting Open Space in the canonical form
    whatsoever (as described in the OST GUIDE)  because the Sponsor
    role is vacant. Unoccupied. And so, by my reckoning, if I
    understand you right, a true Open Space event isn't even possible,
    because the essential OST-Sponsor-role is in fact not willingly
    occupied by anyone with enough authority to play that essential
    role well.

    What's clear is that someone who could function as OST-Sponsor is
    currently unwilling to do so. And so I might try a "taster" or
    "demo" event instead, where the goal is to /learn about Open Space
    in general/, and do a /little/ bit of "real" work too. Especially
    if the allotted time a mere 1/2 day, I am even more inclined to
    strongly favor this re-framing of the stated goals.

    So the primary and stated goal for the "taster" is learning about
    OST. Another goal for a short event might be to see who shows up
    super-interested in the art of Facilitation, and then offer to
    mentor those who do self-select by showing interest.  In this
    manner some Facilitation capacity is developed inside the org, to
    help with current meetings and processes. Introducing Facilitation
    into typical meetings is a easy and effective "culture hack".



    For me, the total unwillingness of an obvious candidate to occupy
    the Sponsor role is a huge warning signal to slow down, pause, or
    even stop.

    Lots of people here have more experience than me, and might be
    willing to lend you some of their expertise regarding the
    authority dynamics of Facilitating an OST event with the essential
    OST-Sponsor-role completely vacant



    Kind Regards,
    Daniel

    On 9/28/14 11:30 PM, John Baxter wrote:

        I am navigating some challenging authority dynamics in a
        project at the moment.

        I was brought in a week out from the first of three forums,
        and asked to 'facilitate a codesign process' which was at that
        stage a black box (with many hidden expectations) scheduled
        into that event (1 hour before lunch and 1 hour afterwards).

        It's a long journey, but you can imagine how my role has
        changed as I prepare for the third forum which I am hosting in
        Open Space.

        The overall process is an engagement between a government
        department and their funded agencies.  The most obvious direct
        power dynamics are obvious, the effective power and authority
        dynamics are much more complex (though predictable).

        Department staff have authority challenges as much as the
        agencies.  They are trying so hard to be 'neutral' and 'non
        controlling' that they are effectively reinforcing their own
        authority positions (which often have little real correlation
        to the power, knowledge etc that they imagine them to).

        To be honest I am not sure how I need to deal with this,
        though my strategy is to accept the authority for hosting the
        space in the next workshop, obsolving the department of their
        responsibility to manage the day.

        It has been interesting to watch push back so far from agency
        reps who are committed to participating, who are genuinely
        engaged, but are playing to an us-them tension that is getting
        in the way of the shared work (and serves them no good ends
        except protecting them from their own responsibility).
        Stand-offishness is gradually being resolved, though some
        pockets are holding firm.

        I am crossing my fingers for WS3 that we can traverse these
        and get into Open Space without being pushed off the bridge by
        the reactionary tension; and that once on the other side, the
        department reps can embrace Open Space and take responsibility
        for their role.

        We will get across /as long as I have the authority/ to host
        the space for them.

        I don't think it is feasible for the obvious authority
        candidates hosting something genuinely participatory.  The
        relevant director has said she doesn't want to speak formally
        and become The Authority for the day, a position I agree with.

        But it does leave something of a shell, where I am crossing my
        fingers that our time together thus far affords me the
        authority to host that space.

        I think we are ready. I am bringing my harness and floaties
        just in case.


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        On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Daniel Mezick via OSList
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        wrote:

        Hi Harrison,

        So interesting how the Law of 2 Feet authorizes me, and every
        other member of an OST event, to go anywhere we may want to go.

        Without asking anyone else for any kind of "permission"...


        Reminds me of this past June, being in Camden with you, and
        Ethelyn, and Harold, and friends... when we were standing on
        the porch of that Camden restaurant... waiting for everyone to
        arrive, and assemble for dinner...

        And as we wait, I notice there is this convenient-looking,
        alternate entry-door... into the dining area.

        And I say: "Hmm...I wonder if we are authorized to use that door."

        And you say:

        "We're authorized to go Anywhere we want to go."

        ...and I like that.

        Daniel


        Picture of that place:
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        See also:
        https://twitter.com/danielgullo/status/483434622009999360


        On 9/25/14 4:58 PM, Harrison Owen wrote:

            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!

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            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 <http://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 <http://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

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        <http://newtechusa.net/blog/>. Twitter
        <http://twitter.com/#%21/danmezick/>.

        Examine my new book: The Culture Game
        <http://newtechusa.net/about/the-culture-game-book/>: Tools
        for the Agile Manager.

        Explore Agile Team Training
        <http://newtechusa.net/services/agile-scrum-training/> and
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    <http://newtechusa.net/about/the-culture-game-book/>: Tools for
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