In what ways do we participate with others in the arena? In this episode we dive into how we organise ourselves in groups, in the organisational structures that exist in our arena, and how that might be changing over time. Looking at the psychological, structural, and technological aspects of group participation as we try to adapt to the complexity that surrounds us.
Date of Recording
Original conversation recorded May 11th 2021
Timestamps
- Series recap after break (01:57)
- How do we participate in the agent/arena? (04:53)
- Individual and collective participation (06:41)
- A walk through ‘Reinventing Organizations’ (10:32)
- Mapping organisational logic to the evolution of our thinking (18:38)
- Increasing complexity driving shift in org structures, purpose and hierarchies (25:30)
- Hierarchy and the technology revolution (33:40)
- Invoking the idea of purpose, devolving decision making (40:14)
- How Holacracy works and where it failed (44:18)
- Self-organising teams & decentralised ways of working (48:53)
- Biological thinking & distributed decision making (53:25)
- A top down, bottom up approach away from command and control organisational processes (59:29)
- The scalability of experimentation (01:06:22)
- Human first approaches - Quaker Capitalists (01:10:24)
- The divine spark and systemic economic thinking (01:14:16)
- Quakers to Crypto - decentralisation, the frontier of technological innovation (01:21:13)
- Discernment and the value of competence hierarchies (01:38:05)
Questions to ponder over
- Why is it important to have a sense of purpose on an individual level, on a societal level, on an organisational level?
- Where does our desire to be a purposeful agent in the world come from? Where does that core drive originate, and what's the driving force behind it?
- How can a sense of purpose potentially get hijacked by forces in the arena to ends that aren't necessarily beneficial to an agent or the arena?
- Are hierarchies inevitable when it comes to groups? What role will they play in a rapidly changing arena?
- How might hierarchies evolve as we distribute decision making to handle the influx of knowledge and information and ever increasing complexity we're faced with?
- What are the other ways that technology can influence how we participate?
- How might it augment and expand our ability to make choices and decisions as well as hinder them when we participate with others?
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