Category: Notes
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Holacracy and Arthur Koestler
The organizational structure in Holacracy is a holarchy, a term coined by Arthur Koestler in The Ghost in the Machine. Brian Robertson writes in his book on Holacracy that: The type of structure used for organizations in Holacracy is not a traditional hierarchy, but a “holarchy.” Arthur Koestler coined the term in his 1967 book…
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We all need to enter the central garden
The “central garden” is Juanita Brown’s metaphor for the place where we come to discover and realize something about dialogue, meaning making and collaboration.1 It’s the place where we can reach an understanding that lies beneath methods and practices. The field of dialogic practice is massive, well researched and well documented,2 and the literature is…
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The misfit’s myth
“Even at the moment of your failure, right there, you are beautiful. You don’t know it yet, but you have the ability to reinvent yourself endlessly. That’s your beauty!“ 1 —Lidia Yuknavitch Notes: 1 Lidia Yuknavitch, The beauty of being a misfit @ (11:41), TED2016, Filmed Feb 2016. (Accessed 28 May 2016)
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What is healthy power?
The Healthy Power Alliance writes in its Healthy Power Manifesto that: “Healthy Power is the ability to do work over time in a way that is good for all the people and systems involved: the ecosystems, the human communities, the customers, the workers, the investors, the leaders, all of us. Healthy Power is circular, not…
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Sociocracy is both right and wrong
Sociocracy uses consent decision-making. 1 If people are autonomic, 2 then decision-making by consent 3 is right. But if people are autonomic, then limiting consent to policy decisions only is wrong. 4 Sociocracy is based on cybernetic principles. 5 The basic feedback model consists of input-transformation-output steps, 6 and leading-doing-measuring activities for each step. The…
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Carol Black on the wildness of children
Carol Black writes the following in On the Wildness of Children (my emphasis in bold): When we first take children from the world and put them in an institution, they cry. … But gradually, over the many years of confinement, they adjust. … The same people who do not see themselves as “above” nature but…
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Metaphors both reflect and influence our thinking
Metaphors both reflect and influence our thinking. The computing metaphor, for example, is popular in Holacracy, where Holacracy is likened with an operating system,1 and people are viewed as sensors acting on behalf of the organization.2 Both Holacracy and Sociocracy treat organizing as a cybernetic problem.3 But our thinking has consequences. People are neither sensors,…
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Holacratic tyranny
People are viewed as sensors for the organization in Holacracy (and Sociocracy 3.0): “… individuals act as sensors (nerve endings) for the organization“ 1 “An organization … is equipped with sensors — … the human beings who energize its roles and sense reality on its behalf.“ 2 “One powerful way … is to harness the…
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All roles in Holacracy are managerial roles
Tim Rayner writes in the article “Medium’s Experiment with Holacracy Failed. Long Live the Experiment!” that: “Holacracy flattens organisations, getting rid of hierarchical power structures.” “It distributes power to individuals, who get to choose what projects they work on and are granted full authority to execute tasks as they see fit.” “The Lead Link heads…
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Bokstavligt talat fullbokad
Min dotter tog den här bilden. Hon tycker att jag bokstavligt talat att är fullbokad! Och jag kan inte annat än hålla med när jag ser min hyllning av böcker. I alla fall i det här rummet.