Harrison H. Owen

Wave Rider (eBook, ePUB)

Leadership for High Performance in a Self-Organizing World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What began twenty years ago as a journey of exploration into the interplay between chaos, order, and the creative process culminates in this capstone work of Harrison Owen's pioneering career. From the creator of Open Space Technology (OST), Wave Rider shows how to apply the fundamental principles of self-organization - the driving power behind OST's immense success - not just to a single event but to the day-to-day management and leadership of organizations. Owen proposes that all systems - not only our organizations but indeed the entire cosmos - are fundamentally self-organizing. Control is ultimately an illusion, and attempts to assert it are a waste of time and can even be destructive. If we want to have truly high-performing organizations, at some point we need to set aside our preconceived goals and strategies, important as they are, and align ourselves and our work with the primal force of self-organization - learn how to ride that wave. To that end, Owen lays out eight concrete steps for becoming a successful Wave Rider, derived from the global experience of hundreds of thousands of Open Space events, wit ha clear focus on producing exceptional performance. The book includes a real-life tale from a genuine Wave Rider, Dee Hock of VISA International, as well as an imagined account of a day in the life of a wave-riding manager, to show how self-organizing principles can deal with specific functions like running a staff meeting, managing projects, motivating staff, and much more. Wave Rider is another exceptional contribution from one of organizational developments true innovators.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781609944476
• Artikelnr.: 38331219

Autorenporträt

Harrison Owen

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction Wave Rider

Part I: Preparation for Wave Riding
Chapter 1: The Holy Grail: Superior Performance
Chapter 2: High Performance Systems Defined
Chapter 3: Getting from Here to There
Chapter 4: The Anomalies
Chapter 5: The Open Space Experiment
Chapter 6: Self Organization: The Key to High Performance Systems?
Chapter 7: How Do We Deal with the Pain?
Chapter 8: A Spanner in the Works

Part II The Wave Rider s Guide to the Future
Chapter 9: Becoming a Wave Rider: Care and Feeding of Self Organizing Systems
Chapter 10: Step One - Do your Homework before you Start
Chapter 11: Step Two - Extend an Invitation
Chapter 12: Step Three - Come to The Circle
Chapter 13: Step Four - Welcome Passion, Responsibility and Authentic Leadership
Chapter 14: Step Five - Remember the Four Principles
Chapter 15: Step Six - Observe the Law of Two Feet
Chapter 16: Step Seven - Keep Grief Working
Chapter 17: Step Eight - Formalize the System
Chapter 18: A Day in the Life of. . .

Conclusion
Index
About the Author

Rezensionen

Makes a compelling argument that applying principles of complex, adaptive systems at work leads to high-performance organizations and that Open Space Technology is an expression of this phenomenon in action a wonderfully engaging and insightful contribution to the leadership literature!
Dr. Arthur L. Jue, Director, Global Organization and Talent Development, Oracle Corporation, and coauthor of Leadership Moments: Turning Points That Changed Lives and Organizations

Shows us why almost everything we think we know about planning, organizing, directing, and controlling is wrong and what we need to do instead.
Rodney Plimpton, PhD, former Senior Vice President, Human Resources, American Electric Power

The current economic downturn has focused business discourse on efficiency, measuring systems, downsizing, and other linear top-down measures, but Owen draws from decades of his grassroot experience to prove that passion, responsibility, and self-organizing are the main ingredients of long-term performance.
Sari Stenfors, PhD, Associate Director, Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research, Stanford University

With characteristic humility Harrison has issued an invitation for authentic leaders to recognize the true nature of how effective organizations work. We have only to decide whether we try to convince ourselves we are still in control or get on the board and become a `wave rider "
Phelim McDermott, Co-Artistic Director, Improbable theatre company, London