Category: Organizing
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Synthesis of organizing orders
This is a post in my series on organizing “between and beyond.” Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to synthesize the findings which are summarized in this post. I will add to this post over time. Background First, a short overview of the posts in this series. I provided an example…
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Autonomic vs. allonomic orders
This is a post in my series on organizing “between and beyond.” The post is part of my exploration of deeper generative orders for organizing. Other posts are here. Norm Hirst spent fifty years to understand life itself. Hirst distinguishes between being autonomic and allonomic: Living entities are autonomic. Machines are allonomic, they obey the…
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Analysis of Integral Management
This is a post in my organizing “between and beyond” series. Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to explore the history and key assumptions of Integral Management, which is an alternative management model developed by Lasse Ramquist and Mats Eriksson. The analysis is summarized here. Background My first encounter with Integral…
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BELONGING together vs. belonging TOGETHER
This is a post in my series on organizing “between and beyond.” The post is part of my exploration of deeper generative orders for organizing. Other posts are here. Heidegger’s distinction between belonging together and belonging together is helpful.1 In the first case belonging is primary and determines the together. Things already belong with one…
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Play as authentic order
This is a post in my “organizing “between and beyond” series. Other posts are here. In a comment on my previous post about authentic vs. counterfeit orders,1 Daniel Mezick (@DanielMezick) suggested that play is related to authentic order, and provided a link to Peter Gray’s Definitions of Play. Peter Gray has concluded that the five…
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Authentic vs. counterfeit orders
This is a post in my series on organizing “between and beyond.” The post is part of my exploration of deeper generative orders for organizing. Other posts are here. I introduced a distinction between authentic versus counterfeit operating limits in my post on the phenomenology of sociocracy. This distinction is inspired by Henri Bortoft.1 My…
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Organizing retrospective 1
This is a post in my series on organizing “between and beyond.” Other posts are here. This is a retrospective of what has happened since I started the series last week. The purpose is to reflect on the journey itself. Here is my next retrospective. What has happened since the start? What needs to be…
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Analysis of Sociocracy and Holacracy
This post is part of my series on organizing “between and beyond.” Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to explore the history and key assumptions of Sociocracy and Holacracy®. The post is based on my previous posts about Sociocracy and Holacracy. The analysis is summarized here. Background I first heard about…
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Analysis of the CMM, PSP, and TSP
This post is part of my series on organizing “between and beyond.” Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to explore the history and key assumptions of Watts Humphrey’s Capability Maturity Model (CMM)®,1 Personal Software Process (PSP)SM,2 and Team Software Process (TSP)SM.3 The analysis is summarized here. Background My first encounter with…
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Analysis of organizing orders
This is a post in my series on organizing “between and beyond.” Other posts are here. The series is inspired by David Bohm’s and F. David Peat’s notion of “the order between and beyond.”1 The purpose of this post is to summarize the analysis. I will add to this post over time. Background First, a…