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
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!
Harrison
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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
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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