Steve
Meeting
- Solution to pain point - control the org
- Come up with a vision to control the org.
- Something to hold decisions against.
- Control the culture.
- Founders leave when they lose control of culture.
- Active participants vs bureacracy.
- Vision to take me from
- Most people won't spend the 4 weeks to study the org. That's why the bureacracy comes in.
- Vision is the solution
- If not we default to talent, not the people we need with culture.
Contest
- Challenge design?
- Manufacturing? Packaging - how do we establish a distributed production capacity? Infrastructure? QA? How do we start the skeleton of design around fully distributed production.
- Distribution - is there a packaging? How will we do this? How do we approach
- I will identify needs of support?
Start at the End
- If it is successful, what does it look like.
- My mind takes off in many tangents.
- Create a true north for me.
- Scare the hell out of me? Llowes + Home Depot.
- Theoretical is good
- How do we deliver at scale?
- 3D printers - we distribute them as well.
Design
- Design the contest
- One or several designs?
- How many people participate.
Weak Links
- What are likely places where it can break?
Asha
- Asha - Oceans for All For Ever. Oceanswell.
Questions
- Metal parts?
More
- Critique of OSE writing - tather than alternative of today, communicate it as aspirational for what we want independently of what it is today.
Vision
- No scarcity, no judgment - just vision
- Written Feedback around vision.
- What matters to me
Intro
A vision is a powerful framework to take the operations of an organization of any size into the arena of possibility. Yet, while most organizations use the term “vision” liberally, few have articulated a vision in such a way that it serves that purpose.
Limited Vision
The term "mission statement" is often used interchangeably with the word “vision” in business and political arenas but, by and large, mission statements are expressions of competition and scarcity. A mission statement characteristically draws a picture of the company’s future, including its position in the marketplace, and designates the steps to fill out the design. That design is more often than not some version of the aspiration to be Number One; by definition an exclusive—and excluding—objective. This kind of statement may motivate people competitively, and may be comfortable to share internally, but it does not provide a guideline for all aspects of the company or organization, nor does it inform people as to its meaning and direction. There is no long line.
Example: “We are to be the preeminent supplier of the most innovative technology in office design in the world.” (Between the lines, a little voice from inside the company walls is crying, “What's in all that for me?”) (Another asks, “Why?” “What for?”)
Proper Vision
A vision has the impelling force of a long line of music. Mozart’s passionate duet from tv lifted the prisoners’ spirits high over prison walls in one of my favorite films - The Shawshank Redemption. Morgan Freeman's character in sharing about a powerful moment in the movie said "I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is I don’t want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can’t be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away. And for the briefest of moments, every last man at Shawshank felt free."
In this way, a vision releases us from the weight and confusion of local problems and concerns, and allows us to see the long clear line. A vision becomes a framework for possibility when it meets certain criteria that distinguish it from the objectives of limited thinking or measurable accomplishments, and becomes limitless. Here are the criteria that enable a vision to stand in the universe of possibility:
- A vision articulates a possibility.
- A vision fulfills a desire fundamental to humankind, a desire with which any human
being can resonate. It is an idea to which no one could logically respond, “What's in it for me?”
- A vision makes no reference to morality or ethics, it is not about a right way of doing things. It cannot imply that anyone is wrong.
- A vision is stated as a picture for all time, using no numbers, measures, or
comparatives. It contains no specifics of time, place, audience, or product.
- A vision is free-standing—it points neither to a rosier future, nor to a past in need of improvement. It gives over its bounty now. If the vision is “peace on earth,” peace
comes with its utterance. When “the possibility of ideas making a difference” is spoken, at that moment ideas do make a difference.
- A vision is a long line of possibility radiating outward. It invites infinite expression, development, and proliferation within its definitional framework.
- Speaking a vision transforms the speaker. For that moment the “real world” becomes a
universe of possibility and the barriers to the realization of the vision disappear.
Inside of the framework of a vision, goals and objectives spring from an outlook of abundance. A goal—even the goal “to be Number One in office design in the world”—is invented as a game to play. Games call forth a different energy than the grim pursuit of goals with the nagging shadow of failure lurking nearby. They draw out the creativity and vitality of the players, without denying that the level at which they play may have something to do with whether the team qualifies for the next round. Under a vision,goals are treated as markers thrown out ahead to define the territory. If you miss the mark—"So What!' or “How fascinating!” Neither you nor the vision is compromised. In the pursuit of objectives under a vision, playing is relevant to the manifestation of the possibility, winning is not.
Here are some examples of visions that meet this criteria of frameworks for possibility. An international food distribution company was inspired by 'a vision of a world in ethical, sustainable partnership. A company that designs inexpensive home products found their expression in the possibility of joy in the everyday, and a group of officers from the U.S. Army resonated to the possibility of a world living in freedom. An orchestra in New England transformed itself into a world-renowned group under the leadership of their vision Passionate Music-Making Without Boundaries.
A vision is an open invitation and an inspiration for people to create ideas and events that correlate with its definitional framework. The vision I co-created with the Sri Lankan Oceanographer for her NGO “Oceanswell” is Oceans for all, forever.
OSE
- Open source technology for sustainable living
- Open source economy for evolving to freedom.
Core to OSE is:
- Transparency
- Technology and efficiency
- Free flow of information
- Unleashed collaboration
- Self determination
- Evolving to freedom
- Transcending artificial scarcity
- Industrial productivity on a small scale
- Participation in building your world
- Authenticity
- Purpose
- Lifelong learning
- Technology without borders
- Economy of affection
- Distributed production
- Quality of life
Words:
- Participation - inclusion, all, everyone
- Creation