Jordan and Peter 2022.11.29
- You are not broken.
- Forge or join a resonate group.
- Tendency - to want to get whole first...
- the rate of opening vs. closing loops
- convening... and then making people feel like they are working on same goal... superpower.
- The problem -
- When we get together... we can feel like we are accomplishing something just because we are together...
- The yin yang balance
OODA and other cycles
- observe-orient-decide-act
- plan-do-check-act
- scan-identify-plan-decide-execute
- Many that end with learning... / retro to restart the cycle.
Comments
- No "brave enough" to X...
- Jordan has loops with each person and can't get us all through all the loops
- "governance" problem
- My gut / intuition says ...
- that the sovereign thing would work
- in lieu of large scale coordination...
- it is enough for each Sovereign - to decide what it is going to do.... don't have to worry yet whether and how it "fits"
- The important thing is that it execute what it believes in effectively...
- Many people didn't feel part of a 'sovereign' - and didn't know how to start...
It Would Be Nice
- To have a directory to say here are the things I am working on...
- Problem - it is hard to describe... what the piece is...
- Hard enough to describe to a friend...
- The way through the sovereign thing - is negotiation. small scale.
- If you have a small sovereign - negotiate with another small sovereign if you can help one another...
- and trying to do that through a directory is a impossible thing.
- Negotiation - then agreements
- especially pair-wise negotiation, at least to start
Non Trivial Point
- Some individuals are in groups
- Some are not...
- Some of my reasonably enlightened friends who get this don't necessarily play well in groups...
Two Problems
- Getting lost in abstraction
- Trying to get too many minds around too big of a thing
- Jordan (or anyone) having individual loops and not being able to bring them together (maybe or maybe not a problem)
Approximate Consensus
- Jordan in several sovereign autonomous groups doing meaningful things.
- Prefer groups - where like ithing - I am willing to spend 5 or 10% of time and resources exploring higher coordination.
Lessons From Entrepreneurship
- Can't say yes to every deal that comes along - have to evaluate the time you spend and relationship in light of resrouces constrains and goals.
- Learn how to do business development, say no to potential opportunities and yes to the ones that will really advance.
- Hierarchy of Partnerships
- Is this potential
Partnership / Deals / Agreements
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my org can source deals that it wants, rather than just depending on what comes in over the transom
- actually out hunting and sourcing
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Defining in advance the decision making criteria / matrix around potential deals
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evaluating the deal from our org's point of view - do we think this will this be good for us?
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expressing a potential deal to a partner - what's in it for them? what's in it for us?
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negotiating terms of the deal
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executing on the terms of the deal
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learning and iterating this deal and other deals
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learning to terminate bad deals
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"negotiating is maybe a gateway drug to learning the rest of it"
Two Negotiations / Deals / Commitments / Agreements
- work on building a mind
- Parts of that
- This month
- work on organizing LIØNSBERG
Next Call - Jordan and Pete
- Break building a mind and building LIØNSBERG down into parts... and discuss possible immediate next steps.
Next Call - LIØNSBERG
- Make it a social call...
Non-Violent Communication
- what exactly happened (observation)
- what you feel about it (feelings)
- what is important to you (needs)
- what you might ask someone or yourself to satisfy this need (requests)