Liam Barrington-Bush / @hackofalltrades#morelikepeople / #odc13
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is a gateway drug
‘...It’s just a
little bit of open
data...a quick
hit of open
software ...a
sneaky taste of
open space...’
‘OPEN’
‘Open’ is a gateway to
IF YOU COULD JUST GIVE UP YOUR SENSE OF SELF WHEN YOU COME TO WORK...
I’ve got abad feelingabout this...
Voting: if it made any difference they’d make it illegal.
The many faces of ‘open’
• Open meetings? – Creating the Future
• Open peer management? – People & Planet
• Open work/life balance? – Netlflix
• Open decision making? – Occupy
• Open salaries? – Semco
The many faces of ‘open’
• Open organisational management? –
Argentine worker-occupied factories
• Open grant making? - ?????
• Open organisational learning? – Platform
• Open direct action? – UKuncut
• Open ...troll hunting? – Greenpeace UK
Open software Open data Open
hardware
Open space
Open organisati
on
Open decision making
Open meetings
Open manageme
ntOpen jobs
But if your organisation’s...
• Creations are free to share• Work isn’t bound by time or
place• Innovation processes are
collaborative• Decisions are made collectively• Meetings are more like
conversations• Teams are accountable to one
another• Jobs are flexible and always
changing
...then...?
‘It’s an organisation, Jim, but not as we know it.’
anarchism.
Why does it work better than the
alternatives?
Because its aligned with the ways we work
together in the rest of our lives.
To be open, is to be human
Open everything!
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