I like your comments, Greg. I think you're right on, on all your points. I'm on a monthly conf call with someone in Zappos in HR and I've appreciated learning from her about their experience.
John Engle Co-Director *Haiti Partners* <http://haitipartners.org/> *Learn more about how we're creating social businesses toward funding quality education. <http://haitipartners.org/what-we-do/schools/social-business/>* ______________________________ Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/johnengle> Mobile: 202-236-6532 and 011.509.3136.6495 US Office: 772.539.8521 On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Greg Bloom <[email protected]> wrote: > I am just starting to learn about both Open Space and Holacracy, but I > actually think there are some misconceptions in this thread. > > Holacracy is *not* a framework in which ruling power is totally > distributed among participants. There's still a head honcho; and at every > level below, there's a group that defines the purpose and exercises > authority over its subsidiary groups. Within that structure, groups are > democratic and I believe self-organizing, etc. But it's very much a > hierarchy. More here: > http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2014/01/15/making-sense-of-zappos-and-holacracy/ > > Despite that, it seems to me that Open Space and Holacracy include similar > notions about the world, but one is exploratory and the other is > operational. Perhaps they could be practiced in a complementary fashion, in > a way that relieves some of the pressure of the hierarchy. I'd love to hear > more comparing and contrast. > > -- > * gjb <http://flavors.me/gjb> * > 202.643.3648 > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > >
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