Larry, Thanks so much for that overview of the Jobs biography. I'd
like to explore your question of how does what he did in his self-
centered ways, lead to such productivity and quality of result?
Where is the Open Space and self-organization? Each being/entity
is self-directed and a closed system. (with the exception of energy
consumption) Jobs could only be himself. His "subjective aim" was
in focus for him within himself and he and he alone could know if
what was being created was coherent with that vision. There is an
intensity that comes with "being on purpose" and it is contagious I
believe. it also acts as inspiration for others to act in ways that
call out "being on purpose/true to yourself" insisting on what is
truth for your being nature. But there is an even deeper nature that
provides coherence for this process and that's just being discovered
- there are laws of living/creative coherence - I believe that's what
Harrison and so many here speak and point to that they experience
through Open Space processes.
When people are called together under these conditions, something
wonderful can happen as "the many become one and are increased by
one" in the words of Whitehead. This is the creative process of life
becoming = it connects us to our aliveness, we find meaning and
fulfillment when we act in concert with our purpose and even more
meaning when that purpose can be joined with others doing the same.
The personal purpose within a greater purpose that has meaning,
worthiness and even urgency which one could see in the Apple
environment, provides deep satisfaction for each participant in the
vision. If you look up the word compete, it means to "seek
together." There is a value sense of satisfaction as we fulfill our
own uniqueness of being and sense the connection to a greater whole.
Any environment that creates such conditions for life - is as
Harrison says, "how life works if we let it."
Help! Sorry for the language - we are exploring a realm that needs
new language and so we work here at Autognomics to find new ways of
talking about these emerging discoveries of life, living processes
and how life creates, knows itself - Open Space and Open Spacers are
pointing out beautifully that "process IS reality" - a value
sensing process and as we share our own inner experiencing of this
process we discover hopefully the bigger picture and ways of Life-
itself, it's self-organizing and connectedness. Thanks for reading
this far, Skye
On Dec 3, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Larry Peterson wrote:
I just finished reading Walter Isaacson's book "Steve Jobs". The
last chapter has an interesting summary of some of the issues that
his successful life raises particularly with regard to open versus
closed IT product systems.
Jobs chose to drive towards integrated, high quality, creative
design and mostly closed products and systems. The openness is
primarily for app developers who can count on a consistent
operating system across products. This makes it easier to develop
high quality applications that you know will work on phones iPad or
iPod my son says.
Jobs did not believe in market research because his ideas were
beyond anyone's expectations and he believed that this vision would
create the products that people would want. He pushed his engineers
and the details of his vision mercilessly. Even Isaacson saw that
the technical term assh*le applied to him quite often. He was a
self centered Zen Buddhist who did not appropriate the more subtle
qualities of a caring person. He was open to learning as long as it
came to be his idea.
His vision “opened space” for those who would work at their top
level to realize it. When they didn’t he was mean and spiteful.
And many didn’t understand his view of good design together with
good technology. He was used to getting what he wanted, even as a
child, and this provided the hubris to move forward. The space of
silicon valley with its nutrient rich environment of engineers and
garages and good schools made it possible for Apple to get going.
His personal Zen Buddist journey provided the self development, but
did not make him self aware, just confident in his own vision.
People around the world got engaged in his visionary leadership and
became followers of Apple as a counter culture product, even when
it stumbled. It certainly has worked in the market place to
integrate superior products that then set the model for the others
to come. Will Google and Microsoft be able to catch up?
As a PC person, I now find the products are quite amazing and the
integration makes it easy for me to connect my iPad with my iPhone
and project pictures on Apple TV with out enormous effort and
technical know-how. The products and the integration are fun even
if they are more costly. I think the book is a great read .
So where is the Open Space and the self-organization, other than at
the beginning – maybe that was enough for real, committed if crazy
leadership to emerge?
Larry
Larry Peterson & Associates in Transformation
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
[email protected] 416.653.4829 http://www.spiritedorg.com
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