On 10/17/14 7:01 AM, John Baxter wrote:
I don't think you need to be so qualified, Paul;
3.) All "all statements" are /positively/ self limiting.

But then if I gather correctly, it's all a joke anyway.

So from that vantage point... what do we do now?


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On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:59 AM, paul levy via OSList <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    Of course ! It's the wonderful irony of "all" statements.

    Paul




    On 16 Oct 2014, at 22:43, Daniel Mezick via OSList
    <[email protected]
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    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
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        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]> wrote:

        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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        *To:* Daniel Mezick
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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
        <[email protected]> wrote:

        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 <[email protected]> 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:
            https://twitter.com/DanielMezick/status/483054326265692161
            See also:
            https://twitter.com/danielgullo/status/483434622009999360


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            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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                *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 <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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            Bio <http://newtechusa.net/dan-mezick/>. Blog
            <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 Coaching.
            <http://newtechusa.net/services/agile-scrum-coaching/>

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

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

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