Workshop facilitated by Pablo Villoch in Southern Sweden last Christmas!

3. pLaYing & LeaRni G
N
in ChaoRdiC
oRganizaTiOns

4. Agenda
1.- Introduction 5’
2.- The Paper Plane 10’ + 5’
3.- The Ball 15’ + 10’
4.- Juggling 15’+ 10 ‘
5.- Final debrief 5’

5. Learning in Chaordic Organizations
Learning objectives:
- Experience how knowledge can be created and managed
- Experience some insights about chaordic organizations
- Understand how learning and innovation happens in organizations
- Understand the diferences between chaordic and traditional
organizations

6. “Modern Times”
Industrial Age
Mechanical
Paradigm
Organizations
as machines
People as
resources

7. IMAGES OF ORGANIZATONS
Gareth Morgan

10. The questions that have been guiding Dee Hock through
his life, and through his book, are as follows:
-> Why are organizations, everywhere,
whether political, commercial, or social,
increasingly unable to manage their affairs?
-> Why are individuals, everywhere,
increasingly in conflict with and alienated from
the organizations of which they are a part?
-> Why are society and the biosphere increasingly in disarray?

11. "We must seriously question the concepts underlying
the current structure of organizations
and whether they are suitable to the
management of accelerating societal and
environmental problems
and, even beyond that, we must seriously consider
whether they are the primary cause of those
problems.“
Dee Hock

12. Chaordic [kay'ordic] adj. fr. chaos and order:
1. the behaviour of any self-governing organism,
organization or system which harmoniously blends
characteristics of order and chaos.
2. patterned in a way dominated by
neither chaos or order.
3. characteristic of the fundamental organizing principles
of evolution and nature.

13. Examples:
- VISA
- MONDRAGON
- PIONEERS OF CHANGE
- CHAORDIC INSTITUTE OF PERMACULTURE
- GOOGLE business model
- OPEN SPACE TECHNOLOGY
- WORLD CAFÉ
- …

14. http://www.chaordic.org/six_lens_overview.html

15. The Paper plane
1. Make a paper plane

16. The Paper plane
1. Make a paper plane
2. Now, throw it
and let it fly.

17. Let’s analyse the results:
- Where is the average?
- What can we say about
the dispersion?
- Whose is the best plane?

18. Now ...
Let s repeat the game!
Our aerospatial engineer
will share the knowledge
with us.

19. What can we learn from this game?

20. Standardization vs. Diversity
Control vs. Creativity
Convergence vs. Divergence
Average vs. Dispersion
Best practices vs. Innovation

21. Knowledge creation. Nonaka & Takeuchi (1995)
Tacit
Explicit
Empathizing Articulating
Embodying Connecting
Tacit
Explicit

22. The Ball Game
Purpose: Be as efficient as possible!

23. The Ball Principles
1.- The ball must pass through each one of us
2.- Everybody must touch the ball at least with one hand
3.- Follow the same sequence once and again
4.- The ball may be passed to the person in front of you
but not to the person besides you.
5.- If the ball falls, we start again,
following the same sequence.
6.- You choose your goals

24. Questions about the Ball Game:
- How can we describe what happened during the game?
- Which pictures of the game will remain in your memory?
- Which were the helping forces that contributed to success?
- Which were the hindering forces ?
- What can we learn from this game?

25. The Juggling Game
Purpose:
Keep the balls moving!!

26. The Juggling Game
1.- Balls should be moving all the time
2.- Follow the same sequence once and
again
3.- The ball may be passed to the person in
front of you but not to the person besides
you.
4.- If one ball falls, pick it up
and keep on playing.
5.- No clock. No pressure
6.- Play and enjoy.

27. Juggling
- How can we describe what happened during the game?
- Feelings, emotions, attitudes, behaviors…
-Which pictures of the game will remain in your memory?
- Which were the helping forces that contributed to success?
- Which were the hindering forces?
-What similiarities can we find between your organization and the game?
- What if each ball were a metaphore of some variable in your organization?
-
- What can we learn from this game?

28. Paper Plane The Ball Juggling

29. http://www.chaordic.org/six_lens_overview.html

30. References
http://www.fractalartcontests.com/2006/entries.php
http://www.armoniafractal.com/
http://www.chaordicinitiatives.org
http://pioneersofchange.net/library/books/boyca/document_view
http://www.scribd.com/doc/14707190/One-From-Many-VISA-and-the-Rise-of-Chaordic-Organization
http://www.ki-net.co.uk/graphics/Dee%20Hock%20-%20The%20Chaordic%20Organization.pdf
http://www.newhorizons.org/lifelong/higher_ed/hock.htm
http://www.slideshare.net/moravec/the-chaordic-way-moravec
http://www.pcdf.org/Meadows/visa.html
http://www.brefigroup.co.uk/resources/view_product.do?product=47&category_sname=free
http://www.slideshare.net/moravec/chaordic-way-harkins

31. Muchas Gracias
Tack så mycket
Thank you very much
Eskerrik asko