For reasons I don't understand, the OSLIST doesn't like me L Refuses my post. So I am trying again.
ho Greg - I suspect we have a case of holacracy and "Holacracy." The notion of holacracy (small "h") has been around for a bit and has been discussed by Ken Wilber and others as a description of the natural, emergent conditions of an organic system, I might say self organizing system. The H was capitalized when folks tried to formalize it and make it into an operational approach to organizations - which is something we do. Zappos and others have essentially mandated its introduction - which seems to me to be the total antithesis of what I thought holarchy was all about. So I do believe that in Open Space we encounter a Holacratic environment... power, decision making, authority is distributed all over, albeit at any given moment it may be centralized in a given person, but only for a moment. That is not what I hear happening at Zappos. I am sure the folks think it is all wonderful, but I do think they are working much too hard creating a system that can emerge all by itself. Otherwise known as organizing a self organizing system. 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
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