Re: [OSList] Fwd: reporting back from MIX...

[Harrison Owen via OSList]

Thanks a lot! I particularly liked: “His 3 key questions for an org seeking to 
transform are: 1)  "what would leadership look like, if no one had any 'command 
authority'?

2) Does everyone have a voice in the decisions that affect them? 3) Can 
innovation arise from anyone, at any time?”  I can’t remember who “he” was, but 
the questions are brilliant. Useful questions always are...Brilliant! Had he 
added, “Command Authority is illusory.” (and maybe he did) – that would be the 
icing on the cake. To be sure, people have the “title”, and the “authorities” – 
but anybody who has ever “been there” knows that is not how things work. It is 
how some folks say they work. Some hope they work... but at the end of the day, 
“Command Authority is a paper tiger. 

 

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(soon to be retired) at the “Executive Director” of something called “The 
Future of Hampton Roads.” A large community based/regional development 
organization with just about 1.3 million people. At the time that was about how 
many people there were in the US Army. The Admiral asked me, “What I had gotten 
him into?” – and I said, “Sir, I think it is about like being in command of the 
US Army without a shred of formal authority.” His response? “Oh... Sounds just 
like my old job.

 

Great person, great leader.

 

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From: OSList [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Rosa 
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Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 9:49 AM
To: Ashley Cooper
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Subject: Re: [OSList] Fwd: reporting back from MIX...

 

Hi Ashley! 

Thanks for your question... great motivation to begin typing up a few notes.
Here are some of my favorites...


Vineet Nayar: (paraphrase) Key role of CEO is to say "I don't know" (and to 
really mean it!);
 to NOT have all the answers, so that others will have room to contribute.

(bit reminiscent of OS, no? :-) 

Core values of CEO: honesty, humility, openness, vulnerability. He started off 
a bit slowly in his talk,
and then really warmed up in a very powerful way. His book is called "Employees 
First, Customers Second." I've not read it yet, but I plan to...

Frederic Laloux: His book "Reinventing organizations" is good, and, I really 
enjoyed him as a speaker. 
'Hacking the decision-making process' as key, in all the transformative orgs 
he's studied;
offered a model of a "third way" betw. hierarchical decision-making & consensus 
decision-making . 

Calls it the "advice process"... seeking to expand the range of each person's 
self-discretionary activity, while at the same time,

creating opportunities for input and alignment. 

Also spoke about how "no hierarchy" does NOT mean flat, but that more precisely 
it means no "power" hierarchy;

no one holds power over another ('command authority'). "When you take out power 
hierarchies, lots of natural hierarchies appear, based on 
passion, contribution, skills, expertise, etc.  We all become both leaders as 
well as followers of someone else. 

His 3 key questions for an org seeking to transform are: 1)  "what would 
leadership look like, if no one had any 'command authority'?

2) Does everyone have a voice in the decisions that affect them? 3) Can 
innovation arise from anyone, at any time?

Heiko Fischer, Resourceful Humans -- What would it look like, if organizations 
were as creative as the people inside them? 

His main point was, ask your own people... "How would you organize, if you 
could organize this organization the way you want it to be?"

Offer them range of possibilities to start the conversation so that they can 
see a spectrum... yet each organization will need to find 
its own solutions, based on its unique character. 

Someone asked, "was it terrifying, to give up all that power?" He said, "YES! 
We had to fight our own demons, in order to surrender to what we knew we had to 
do. As soon as we let go, it all came together... "  

Described process of getting there, with one organization; began with doing 
constellation work with entire executive team, asking them to respond 
non-verbally to question "how clear is the CEO's vision to you?" by physically 
standing in different locations of room. How honest and shocking the responses 
were...  

>From that physical experience, was able to start an authentic conversation. 
>"We tend to focus on increasing motivation and increasing competency, but the 
>third leg of the stool, enabling, that is hugely important

Re: [OSList] Fwd: reporting back from MIX...

[Rosa Zubizarreta via OSList]

Hi Ashley!

Thanks for your question... great motivation to begin typing up a few notes.
Here are some of my favorites...

*Vineet Nayar:* (paraphrase) Key role of CEO is to say "I don't know" (and
to really mean it!);
 to NOT have all the answers, so that others will have room to contribute.
(bit reminiscent of OS, no? :-)

Core values of CEO: honesty, humility, openness, vulnerability. He started
off a bit slowly in his talk,
and then really warmed up in a very powerful way. His book is called
"Employees First, Customers Second." I've not read it yet, but I plan to...

*Frederic Laloux: *His book "Reinventing organizations" is good, and, I
really enjoyed him as a speaker.
'Hacking the decision-making process' as key, in all the transformative
orgs he's studied;
offered a model of a "third way" betw. hierarchical decision-making &
consensus decision-making .
Calls it the "advice process"... seeking to expand the range of each
person's self-discretionary activity, while at the same time,
creating opportunities for input and alignment.

Also spoke about how "no hierarchy" does NOT mean flat, but that more
precisely it means no "power" hierarchy;
no one holds power over another ('command authority'). "When you take out
power hierarchies, lots of natural hierarchies appear, based on
passion, contribution, skills, expertise, etc.  We all become both leaders
as well as followers of someone else.

His 3 key questions for an org seeking to transform are: 1)  "what would
leadership look like, if no one had any 'command authority'?
2) Does everyone have a voice in the decisions that affect them? 3) Can
innovation arise from anyone, at any time?

*Heiko Fischer,* Resourceful Humans -- What would it look like, if
organizations were as creative as the people inside them?
His main point was, *ask your own people*... "How would *you *organize, if
you could organize this organization the way you want it to be?"
Offer them range of possibilities to start the conversation so that they
can see a spectrum... yet each organization will need to find
its own solutions, based on its unique character.

Someone asked, "was it terrifying, to give up all that power?" He said,
"YES! We had to fight our own demons, in order to surrender to what we knew
we had to do. As soon as we let go, it all came together... "

Described process of getting there, with one organization; began with doing
constellation work with entire executive team, asking them to respond
non-verbally to question "how clear is the CEO's vision to you?" by
physically standing in different locations of room. How honest and shocking
the responses were...

>From that physical experience, was able to start an authentic conversation. "We
tend to focus on increasing motivation and increasing competency, but the
third leg of the stool, enabling, that is hugely important -- *removing*
the restrictions that are in the way of people doing what they already want
to do, and are already capable of doing. To do this, leader needs to
surround themselves with people who will honestly challenge him or her."

*James DeJuilo* from Tongal was great  -- creativity set free, by
crowd-sourcing filmed content...
a community that has a company attached to it, instead of the other way
around...

*Helen Bevan *and *Jackie Lynton*... very energizing crowdsourcing org
change inside huge bureaucracy...

*Leerom Segal* and *Jay Goldman* from Klick Health -- "Technology Eats
Bureaucracy"...
creative applications of data and tech to empower people.
Book: "The Decoded Company" Collaboration software: Genome

and last but not least, my absolute fave...

*Alanna Krause* from Enspiral and Loomio.
moving from the "tyranny of structurelessness", to tyranny-less
structures...

Enspiral is network of social entrepreneurs, some of  whom developed Loomio
(open-soutce collaboration software)
to support own transparent decision-making process, including collaborative
budgeting.
Article: When Business Met Occupy: Innovating for True Collaborative
Decision-Making


main job of leaders: 1) give good ideas a place to go, and
2) recognize and value facilitation.

***

Ok... that's it for now...

enjoy!


*Rosa Zubizarreta*

*Diapraxis: Facilitating Creative Collaborationhttp://www.diapraxis.com
*


On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Ashley Cooper  wrote:

> Rosa,
>
> Thank you so much for this summary. Are there any talks that you would
> highly recommend that we watch?
>
> Appreciatively,
> Ashley
>
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> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Rosa Zubizarreta via OSList <
> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In spite of the old-

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Re: [OSList] Critical Testing

[Royle, Karl via OSList]

HI

I think you could look at work on capability/functionings… Sen and Agency… 
personal and Collective Bandura… as a starting point for a survey around 
participation in OS.

Best Karl

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From: Kári Gunnarsson via OSList 
mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>>
Reply-To: Kári Gunnarsson 
mailto:kari.gunnars...@simnet.is>>, World wide Open 
Space Technology email list 
mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>>
Date: Monday, 24 November 2014 11:23
To: John Baxter mailto:j...@jsbaxter.com.au>>, World wide 
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mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>>
Subject: Re: [OSList] Critical Testing

Hi John

The next step would probably to identify some purpose in form of a research 
questions. What is it that we are looking for, so that we can start to think 
about what to measure.



On Friday, 21 November 2014, John Baxter via OSList 
mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:
Hi Kari

I like your intent, but I hear you when you say you fear it may be "far too 
difficult".

Do you have any thoughts on viable first steps?
(Beyond the immediate step of sharing intent to see what comes of it!)
I am thinking of what in startup language is 'minimum viable product'.

Cheers


John Baxter
Cocreation Consultant & ​Co​Create Adelaide Facilitator
jsbaxter.com.au | 
CoCreateADL.com
0405 447 829
​ | ​
@jsbaxter_

Thank you to everyone who came, helped or spread the good word about City Grill!
Summary and links: 
cocreateadl.com/localgov/grill-summary/


On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Kári Gunnarsson 
 wrote:
There is an invitation to some scientific rigor for our beloved technology. I 
propose we accept this invitation as a communal effort. An idea for a trial 
design would be to collect survey data where the nuances of the lived 
experiences would be teased out, survey data collected by cooperation among our 
grand Institutes and access given to unaffiliated researchers to collect some 
understandings and make their own conclusions in publishable science papers. It 
will probably be far too difficult, even impossible the task of building of 
such survey database along with the standardized questioners. And the time to 
build it was sometime long ago, we are long past out do time. There is urgency 
to this task. But do we have to do it? Well, is there a real need for this 
approach? I think we can host this endeavor, even try to find a design that 
allows for a Double-blinded rigor. My vision is that we design standardize and 
publish a survey that we then allow events to use to collect data for us, data 
that we then give to researchers where they can use it for their publishing 
needs. There is also the Pandora’s Box of issues and opportunities. It looks 
like it is a topic ripe for an open space, "be prepared to be surprised".

The new late majority folks are going for the theme of „participatory 
processes“ and request an overview over the landscape. It is the new gathering 
pole and open space is central for me in this arena as it is less controlling 
that other processes. Perhaps tour rigor should be part of a broader sense of 
analyses under the more general heading of participatory processes.

But perhaps when we look at Open Space, then we must use the same type of 
analyses as when we look at research approaches, like when we look at the 
difference on Double-blinded procedure done by WHR Rivers 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._R._Rivers and earlier research procedures.

A resent story on "time to think", two weeks ago I facilitated a short 3 hour 
open space for a local branch of a political on their internal operations. 
There were also a lot of other things happening before and after the 
conversation part of the program, some football fans even disappeared during 
the open space to see the ongoing game.  Personally I was happy that we had the 
lunch before the open space, I took some time for reflection and thinking about 
the possible dream future and topics that make us show up for the work. Then 
reflection and lunch was served, a lot of chatter during the soup lunch, then 
back to the introduction of principles … “Whatever happens is the only thing 
that could have, be prepared to be surprised!”… democracy of the feet / the law 
of mobility, the bugs and what they give us.  Then brake for topics. …  It was 
short time and a lot of conflict of attention by the sponsors for the other 
parts of the day program, but it worked out well. The passion for work and the 
freedom of this technology 

Re: [OSList] Critical Testing

[Kári Gunnarsson via OSList]

Hi John

The next step would probably to identify some purpose in form of a research
questions. What is it that we are looking for, so that we can start to
think about what to measure.



On Friday, 21 November 2014, John Baxter via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Hi Kari
>
> I like your intent, but I hear you when you say you fear it may be "far
> too difficult".
>
> Do you have any thoughts on viable first steps?
> (Beyond the immediate step of sharing intent to see what comes of it!)
> I am thinking of what in startup language is 'minimum viable product'.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> *John Baxter*
> *Cocreation Consultant & ​Co​Create Adelaide Facilitator*
> jsbaxter.com.au  | CoCreateADL.com
> 0405 447 829
> ​ | ​
> @jsbaxter_ 
>
> *Thank you to everyone who came, helped or spread the good word about City
> Grill!*
> *Summary and links: cocreateadl.com/localgov/grill-summary/
> *
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Kári Gunnarsson <
> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
>> There is an invitation to some scientific rigor for our beloved
>> technology. I propose we accept this invitation as a communal effort. An
>> idea for a trial design would be to collect survey data where the nuances
>> of the lived experiences would be teased out, survey data collected by
>> cooperation among our grand Institutes and access given to unaffiliated
>> researchers to collect some understandings and make their own conclusions
>> in publishable science papers. It will probably be far too difficult, even
>> impossible the task of building of such survey database along with the
>> standardized questioners. And the time to build it was sometime long ago,
>> we are long past out do time. There is urgency to this task. But do we have
>> to do it? Well, is there a real need for this approach? I think we can host
>> this endeavor, even try to find a design that allows for a Double-blinded
>> rigor. My vision is that we design standardize and publish a survey that we
>> then allow events to use to collect data for us, data that we then give to
>> researchers where they can use it for their publishing needs. There is also
>> the Pandora’s Box of issues and opportunities. It looks like it is a topic
>> ripe for an open space, "be prepared to be surprised".
>>
>> The new late majority folks are going for the theme of „participatory
>> processes“ and request an overview over the landscape. It is the new
>> gathering pole and open space is central for me in this arena as it is less
>> controlling that other processes. Perhaps tour rigor should be part of a
>> broader sense of analyses under the more general heading of participatory
>> processes.
>>
>> But perhaps when we look at Open Space, then we must use the same type of
>> analyses as when we look at research approaches, like when we look at the
>> difference on Double-blinded procedure done by WHR Rivers
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._R._Rivers and earlier research
>> procedures.
>>
>> A resent story on "time to think", two weeks ago I facilitated a short 3
>> hour open space for a local branch of a political on their internal
>> operations. There were also a lot of other things happening before and
>> after the conversation part of the program, some football fans even
>> disappeared during the open space to see the ongoing game.  Personally I
>> was happy that we had the lunch before the open space, I took some time for
>> reflection and thinking about the possible dream future and topics that
>> make us show up for the work. Then reflection and lunch was served, a lot
>> of chatter during the soup lunch, then back to the introduction of
>> principles … “Whatever happens is the only thing that could have, be
>> prepared to be surprised!”… democracy of the feet / the law of mobility,
>> the bugs and what they give us.  Then brake for topics. …  It was short
>> time and a lot of conflict of attention by the sponsors for the other parts
>> of the day program, but it worked out well. The passion for work and the
>> freedom of this technology opened for topics and responsibility that had
>> previously been submerged by the tyranny of long speeches and lectures.
>> Give a little time and then open up some space, works each time given the
>> preconditions.
>>
>> In openness,
>> Kári the group coach
>>
>>
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