Background Reference Material on new Ways of Working and Organising (Future of Work)

This is not intented to be comprehensive, simply intended to point people to some further background material they might want to consider looking to further.

Areas:

Open Space Technology

Sociocracy

Lean

Manifestos

Miscellaneous


 

Open Space Technology

  • Moreover you will find a number of useful links at the end of Martin’s short article What is Open Space

Books by Harrison Owen:

Wave Rider, Leadership for High Performance in a Self-organising World:   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wave-Rider-Leadership-Performance-Self-Organizing/dp/1442966742/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1446930143&sr=8-12&keywords=harrison+owen

Open Space Technology, A User’s Guide: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Open-Space-Technology-Users-Guide/dp/1442966424/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446930143&sr=8-1&keywords=harrison+owen

Video clips:

Introduction to Open Space  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtcAWA997HI

Methods of Facilitation: Open Space Technology (Spanish) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UoG24LdU5Q

Open Space Technology; The Power of Sefl-organisation (German) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD3S0wlbek0

Harrison Owen Ted Talk: Dancing with Shiva:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APD7oQ3xrSA

 


 

Sociocracy

Thanks to Jan Höglund of Sweden for compiling this comprehensive list and for making it available and publicly updatable as a wiki at sociokrati.se.  This list below is copied from there, but is not updated regularly.  If you want to see the latest updated version of the list, please go to  sociokrati.se

Books

Course Materials

Websites

Articles

Films

Sociocratic Organizations

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

Yahoo

Radio

Other

 

 

Lean

The best souce of background material can be found in Planet Lean, a subscriber pulication

 


 

Manifestos

Coming soon

Agile Manifesto

manifesto copied + source link

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Responsive Manifesto

manifesto copied + source link

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Sociocracy does not have a manifesto, but has 4 minimal principles for an organisation to be considered sociocratic.  The 4 principles are:

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Open Space Technology has 5 principles and 1 law but beyond that no manifesto.  The 5 principles and one law are:

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Lean purposefully does not have a manifesto as it sees itself as a constantly evolving movement which a manifesto could potentially stagnate.  Nevertheless there are guiding principles:

PPP

hito mono tsukuri

.....

 

 

Beyond Budgeting has 12 principles:

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Teal has 3 basic features

- self-organising

- wholeness

- evolutionary purpose

 

 

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Miscellaneous

  • Enlivening Edge is a online publication reporting on a multitude of case studies, stories and methodologies around teal and generally new economomy approaches, largely inspired by Reinventing Organisations
  • The project is funded by Future Considerations
  • There are a number of new age consultancies which have emerged looking at instigating new working practices in teams in larger corporations.  They grew out of a consultancy called Undercurrent, and while unique all have similar tone to what they do (which is radically diffeent from traditional managemet consultancies):
  • The Ready
  • August
  • No...
  • coming soon.
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  • Post-Shift & Base-Shift
  • Corporate Rebels

 

Please note that many of these consultancies have an open book transparency policy which they take to heart in that all (except client confidential stuff) of their material, internal documents and techniques are openly available for anyone to view through their website.