Pegasus: Dee Hock Keynote LO10787

Richard Karash (rkarash@karash.com)
Tue, 29 Oct 1996 21:41:29 -0500 (EST)

Dee Hock Keynote -- Pegasus Conference 10/3/96

Below are my notes of Dee Hock's keynote address at the Pegasus Conference
10/3/96. Where this reads roughly or garbled, that's most likely my
paraphrasing. And, my notes are a little slim; Dee said much more than
I've recorded, including the very interesting story of his career.

Web readers will see graphics on the page below; these are Mindscapes
drawn at the conference. For each of the keynotes, Nancy Margulies
(314-991-2008) and/or Christine Valenza drew these during the talk. These
are reproduced here with permission of the artists and Pegasus
Communication.

Video and audio tapes of this talk are available from Pegasus
Communications (617-576-1231) and summaries of the Keynote talks will
appear in the next issue of "The Systems Thinker."

Others please join in with your recollections or notes. And, let this be
a starting point for discussion.

-- Rick

---- Notes below are paraphrasing Dee Hock's talk ----

Hello fellow CHAORDs! (Chaos + Order = Chaord).

Universities have been around for five centuries. Corporations and nation
states for only three centuries.

[Graphic]

Everything has intended and unintended consequences. Intended consequences
may or may not occur, but the unintended consequences *always* occur.

Our system is geared to uniform goods, services... and *people*.

Managers and scientists... The universities have an oligopoly on the
creation of both.

1. The real consequence of science is not gadgets... It is radical social
change. Science progress demands institutional change.

2. Electronic communication systems are creating a complex economic and so
cial neural net.

3. The Information Age = the age of mind crafting.

4. The most abundant resource is human ingenuity. Institutions restrict
this ingenuity.

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The kind of organizations I envision will be:

1. Equitably owned by their participants. Participants will have common
rights and obligations.

2. Power and functions distributed as far down as possible.

3. Governance must be distributed.

4. Maleable (in form and function), yet durable (in purpose and
principles).

For example, the VISA organization is a non-stock, for profit, membership
corporation.

People incapable of self governance are incapable of *being* governed.

[Graphic]

-- 
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