Category: Organization
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Organizing reflection 16
This is a post in my series on organizing ”between and beyond.” Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to reflect on subjects occupying my mind. I make no claim to fully believe what I write. Neither do I pretend that others have not already thought or written about the same subject. More often…
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David Bohm on ecology, organization, thinking, dialogue, and wholeness
David Bohm on ecology, organization, thinking, dialogue, and wholeness:1 “… the ecology in itself is not a problem. It works perfectly well by itself. Its due to us, right?” “The earth is one household really, but we are not treating it that way …” “… the more you made society big and you had organization,…
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Bonnitta Roy on an open architecture for self-organization
Bonnitta Roy describes in An Open Architecture for Self-Organization how to “to distribute management responsibilities into self-organizing teams, without losing strategic performance“. She calls this “The Open Participatory Organization“, or OPO for short. The governance of an OPO is CriSP, or “continually regenerating it’s starting position“. This means that the form of the organization “takes…
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Bonnitta Roy on how self-organization happens
Bonnitta Roy writes in How Self-Organization Happens … and why you can trust it on Medium.com that Self-organization = Intention x Identity x Interaction. Here is a summary of Bonnitta Roy’s article. Intention Values drive all organizational life. Our thoughts are constantly floating on waves of shifting intention-motivational states, or value-streams. These value-streams create waves…
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Ralph Stacey on rule-following
Ralph Stacey writes that we have to think of global organizational order as continually emerging in myriad local interactions,1 and that it is highly simplistic to think of human beings as rule-following beings.2 In our acting, we may take account of rules but can hardly be said to blindly follow them.3 The essential and distinctive…
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Principles for making organizations work
John Gottman writes about what successful relationships look like and how to strengthen them in The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work together with Nan Silver. Below is a summary of Bob Marshall’s adaptation of these principles to organizations: Enhancing “Love Maps”. Flourishing organizations are familiar with their peoples’ worlds and needs. Nurture Fondness And…
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Taylorism in Druckerian clothes
Gianpiero Petriglieri argues that Technology Is Not Threatening Our Humanity — We Are in the 30 October 2015 issue of the Harvard Business Review. Petriglieri writes that while “technology often augments leaders’ power … it is humanity that keeps power in check“, and that “we would do well to revisit a fierce debate that shaped…
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Book Review: Team of Teams
Teams of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Stanley McChrystal, with Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell, is a book about the restructuring of the Joint Special Operations Task Force from the ground up. The book is built upon the authors ”personal experiences”, together with their ”reviews” of ”published studies”…
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Dee Hock on control
Life is not about control. It’s not about getting. It’s not about having. It’s not about knowing. It’s not even about being. Life is eternal, perpetual becoming, or it is nothing. Becoming is not a thing to be known, commanded, or controlled. It is a magnificent, mysterious odyssey to be experienced.1 … I have long…
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Chris Corrigan on self-organization
Here are quotes of Chris Corrigan from an email to the World wide Open Space Technology email list September 1, 2015. (My highlights in bold.) Self organization works by a combination of attractors and boundaries. Attractors are things that draw components of a system towards themselves (gravity wells, a pile of money left on the…