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	Chaordic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The portmanteau chaordic is used in some philosophies to refer to a system that is simultaneously chaotic and ordered.
		Some people hold that nature is largely organized in such a manner; in particular, living organisms and the evolutionary process by which they arose are often described by adherents to such a philosophy as chaordic in nature.
		Chaordic systems have also been proposed as a possible approach to consensus decision-making that would be neither hierarchical nor anarchic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chaordic (147 words)

	Chaordic -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The (A large travelling bag made of stiff leather) portmanteau chaordic is used in some (additional info and facts about philosophies) philosophies to refer to a system that is simultaneously (additional info and facts about chaotic) chaotic and ordered.
		The combination of chaos and order is typically described as a harmonious coexistence displaying characteristics of both, with neither chaotic nor ordered behavior dominating.
		Chaordic systems have also been proposed as a possible approach to (additional info and facts about consensus decision-making) consensus decision-making that would be neither (additional info and facts about hierarchical) hierarchical nor (additional info and facts about anarchic) anarchic.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chaordic.htm (150 words)

	Org.Transformation Articles -- Chaordic IT
		Chaordic principles are increasingly being applied to a variety of institutional organizing efforts.
		Chaordic organizing principles can be applied to IT projects to nullify many of the problems highlighted in the Standish Group study.
		Chaordic concepts could also be used to integrate the plethora of old billing systems currently dragging down domestic telecommunication companies.
	www.systemtransformation.com /chaordic.htm (2763 words)

	ITOT -- Finalize Organizational Modeling & Realignment Approach
		According to Hock¹, a chaordic organization is any self-organizing, self-regulating, adaptive, non-linear, complex organization, the behavior of which harmoniously exhibits characteristics of both order and chaos.
		The hub model is a key element of chaordic governance because it supports the concepts of managing at the peripheral and self-organization.
		The participative design process is symbiotic with chaordic governance and with the hub-based organizational model insofar as allowing decisions — including design decisions — to be made at the periphery.
	www.systemtransformation.com /itot_finalize.htm (1288 words)

	Mitch Ratcliffe's Travels
		The problem with the Commons, unlike the organizations actually using chaordic thinking, is that in every case, successful chaords form to accomplish some goal or profit (in the form of betterness of a situation as well as financial profit) while the Commons has no shared ends except the propigation of chaordic principles.
		With a shared goal in common, something that is largely worked out in practice, chaordic groups will strike an agreement between participants and use that agreement to govern their affairs to the degree that they are intertwined.
		Because chaordic organizations encourage "consensual decision-making" and "educing" change, most chaords only arrive at a level of tolerance after a lot of argument (such as how many fish one can take from an Atlantic fishery each year -- do you think that was discussed politely at first?).
	radio.weblogs.com /0116895/2003/02/08.html (1562 words)

	Future Positive : Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In one sense, an Organizational Concept is the chaordic equivalent of the organization chart, though it tends to resemble the neurons of the brain or the complex patterns of an ecosystem rather than a traditional hierarchy.
		Chaordic organizations will have multiple centers of governance, none of which could be described as dominant.
		It is this balancing of creative tensions that ensures a chaordic organization's integrity and fosters its distinctive, dynamic balancing of self-organization and organizational coherence.
	futurepositive.synearth.net /2002/08/18 (2534 words)

	GeoData Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A "chaordic" organization approach has been suggested in the U.S. as an appropriate means to rapidly populate the NSDI with data from multiple sources and to make spatial data and services far more accessible and useful to larger numbers of potential users.
		Chaordic organizations have the characteristics of allowing structure, people, and practices to continuously evolve in pursuit of their purposes (chaos) while, in a narrow band of activity essential to the success of the whole, they engage in the most intense cooperation (order).
		The "library system" is a far more appropriate chaordic model to explore relative to possible future directions for the GSDI and as a means for providing incentives to data collectors to document their spatial datasets.
	www.geoall.net /library_harlanonsrud.html (860 words)

	What If: Dee Hock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		By chaordic I mean any organization, system or organism whose behavior exhibits emergent, observable patterns and probabilities that cannot be explained by or governed by understanding its constituent parts.
		Only with the evolution of a self-organizing, chaordic, transcendent organization in which all parties have an appropriate voice in governance, in which the whole does not control the parts and the parts do not control the whole, in which competition and cooperation are harmoniously blended, can order emerge and universal, effective, low-cost health evolve.
		Building chaordic institutions--institutions capable of their own continual learning and transformation, of coevolving with other institutions and people--is the only path to a livable future.
	imaginewhatif.com /Pages/Hock.html (2676 words)

	Credit Card Info Online: Books: Birth of the Chaordic Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Birth of the Chaordic Age is a compelling manifesto for the future, embedded within the intriguing story of a personal odyssey.
		In the Chaordic Age, he contends, "success will depend less on rote and more on reason; less on the authority of the few and more on the judgment of many; less on compulsion and more on motivation; less on external control of people and more on internal discipline." Hear, hear.
		He credits the worldwide success of VISA to its chaordic structure: It is owned by its member banks, which both compete with each other for customers and cooperate by honoring one another's transactions across borders and currencies.
	www.creditcardinfoonline.com /credit-card-store/shop.php?mode=Books&node=9&item=1574533460 (1961 words)

	Birth of the Chaordic Age, Dee Hock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I was so excited when I first came across Dee Hock and his chaordic organisations that I copied the articles that I had found on the Internet and sent them to my colleagues.
		Hock has since published a book, Birth of the Chaordic Age, telling the whole story of how VISA International was conceived, founded and established.
		Chaordic: the behaviour of any self-governing organism, organisation or system that harmoniously blends characteristics of order and chaos.
	www.brefigroup.co.uk /books/chaordic_change.html (576 words)

	January 6, 2000: Global Citizen, The Chaordic Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Chaordic organizations, like any organization, may be abused by the incompetent or the criminal, but they have astounding powers of self-policing and self-repair.
		In his new book, Birth of the Chaordic Age, Dee Hock tells three stories at three levels: his own life story, the story of VISA, and a profound story about human institutions.
		The purpose is "what ought to be." Hock says it's the hard part of any chaordic alliance, getting the purpose right, making it consistent with real need, with the laws of the planet, with the mysteries of life.
	www.lasvegasweekly.com /departments/01_06_00/upfront_global_citizen.html (902 words)

	The Trillion-Dollar Vision of Dee Hock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A system that was both chaotic and ordered was "chaordic." Thus you had the "Visa chaord," the "brain chaord," and so on.
		Second: Complex, four-dimensional models of chaordic organizations would have to be developed -- the fourth dimension, Hock said, was "ethical and spiritual." And computer models would have to be built to demonstrate how institutions can self-organize.
		Its sole purpose would be to accelerate the implementation of the principles of chaordic organizations.
	www.fastcompany.com /online/05/deehock.html (4666 words)

	The Open Co-op : Chaordic Design Process
		One or two sessions exploring the core chaordic concepts with a leadership or initiating group.
		Each of the six dimensions can be thought of as a lens through which participants examine the circumstances giving rise to the need for a new organization or to reconceive an existing one.
		We urge groups and organizations to take time to assess the relevance and "fit" of chaordic concepts and processes for their circumstances.
	opencoop.org /Chaordic+Design+Process (1193 words)

	CoolChurches - Resources for the Missional Church
		Recently, Chad Hall conducted an interview with Dee Hock, author of Birth of the Chaordic Age and founder of VISA International.
		In his recent book, Birth of the Chaordic Age, Hock argues that the success of VISA (22,000 member banks, 750 million customers, and $1.25 trillion in annual transactions) stems from its chaordic structure.
		I call it this new age chaordic because it will be immensely complex and chaotic, but also requires cohesion and coherence, or order.
	www.coolchurches.com /articles/deehock.html (2029 words)

	bastish.net
		Sometimes, the chaordic learning takes the form of a group of bloggers who share a common interest in a certain topic, consistently writing about it, learning from each other, but still dependent on the short conversations with others outside of their own learning community to bring new information and insights into the larger conversation.
		Chaordic enterprises are dissipative systems engaging in a cycle of both destruction and creation.
		Chaordic enterprises strive toward ascending levels of coherence and complexity, made possible by capacities for self-organization, self-reference, and self-transcendence.
	www.bastish.net /rememberwhen/003089.html (1106 words)

	shift happens! - View topic - Chaos/Chaordic Theory/Paul's Organizational Style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In Birth of the Chaordic Age, Dee Hock, the founder of the VISA credit card company, writes “The organization of the future will be the embodiment of community based on shared purpose calling to the higher aspirations of people.”[15] He goes on to illustrate how hierarchical command-and-control institutions alienate and dishearten people within them.
		The chaordic leader understands the necessity of both chaos and order and is able to create conditions in which each person’s “talent, drive, values, and passion,” will be released.
		For in the ecclesial setting chaordic leadership is simply a return to the roots of our tradition as expressed in the letters that Paul sent to the communities that he founded.
	www.3dff.com /php/viewtopic.php?t=435&sid=bc822709660e2a917d7247287d2288e0 (7304 words)

	Chaordic Initiatives: Help
		The Chaordic Commons is a global network of individuals and organizations committed to pioneering new ways to organize, based on the discovery and expression of deep common purposes and essential principles of right relationship.
		The Commons is a chaordic organization, realizing its aim through the self-organizing, self-governing activity of owning members linked by their commitment to common purpose and shared principles.
		The Chaordic Commons is incorporated in Illinois as a nonprofit membership corporation and is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
	www.chaordicinitiatives.org /?mode=about (2163 words)

	Global Home - Birth of the Chaordic Age - Book Review
		"Chaordic" is a word which Hock invented to be a concatenation of two seemingly opposite concepts -- chaos and order.
		The self-described "conservative businessman" finds himself amazingly collaborating with the Santa Fe Institute and what he terms the "radical liberal" Ralph Nader, and members of Nader's Harvard Law School class of 1958, who have formed the Appleseed Foundation and are building a national network of locally self-organized and governed law-and-justice centers.
		Other Chaordic Alliance collaborators include the Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation of New England and the Society for Organizational Learning, which is lead by Peter Senge, the MIT business-school professor and organizational theorist.
	www.globalhome.com /news/chaordic/bookreview.html (5426 words)

	Future Positive : Welcome
		Most lawyers, by training and experience, are accustomed to thinking and working solely in the context of hierarchical, command and control organizations, and they often have difficulty understanding concepts of chaordic organization and preparing organizational documents based on those concepts.
		The decision concerning an appropriate jurisdiction should be made in conjunction with legal counsel with expertise in chaordic organization.
		If you encounter constraints on some of the organizational innovations you might like to implement, lawyers experienced with chaordic organization are likely to be more helpful in finding creative solutions and ways to expand the perceived limits of current legal thought and practice.
	futurepositive.synearth.net /2002/08/19 (1409 words)

	Articles from LEAVEN: How to Talk About the Chaordic Process
		If you’re asking questions about the Chaordic or renewal initiative, if you dream about what LLL can do, you’re just the person to initiate a discussion in your locality.
		Putting the Chaordic Initiative into words can be a challenge, yet in doing so, you’ll find deeper understanding.
		In the spring of 2001, chaordic teams developed a set of 12 (expanded to 13) questions that prompt thought about our commonalities, possibilities, and boundaries.
	www.lalecheleague.org /llleaderweb/LV/LVAugSep02p88.html (1036 words)

	The KaosPilot Territory
		Most Chaordic Commons’ owning members are probably familiar with the six lens process that was designed to establish, in a systematic manner, a chaordic organization (for more information, check on this website www.chaordic.org).
		Chaordic Commons owning member and trustee, Kathy Covert shared a "+2" experience when I interviewed her for the Collective Chaordic Spirit project.
		I would like to thank Uffe Elbaek, all other KaosPilots and especially the 2003 graduates for their openness and willingness to invite me to spent their last week at school with them, observing what was at times touching, or funny, often matter-of fact, but always personal.
	www.kaospilot.dk /docs/showArticle.asp?id=197 (1779 words)

	Chaordic proposal: Market for openly sharing work - Ecademy
		In order for such a market to work, we need to restrict participation to those who objectively demonstrate that they can be expected to do and share at least part of their work freely and openly.
		We therefore propose that Chaordic Commons encourage Owning Members to place their websites, discussion groups, Wikis and weblogs under a simple license, Primarily Public Domain, which states that material is in the Public Domain "except as noted".
		We suggest that four units of work be reserved for Chaordic Commons administrators, of which two would be spent on set up, and two on a final report.
	www.ecademy.com /node.php?id=4566 (1699 words)

	Chaordic Commons -- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He is a CC evangelist having given presentations about the chaordic mode of self-organizing at the annual Delphi Summit Conference and in tutorials to the International Council on Systems Engineering.
		AA is one of three organizations that Dee Hock has identified as Chaordic, founded in 1935 it is by far the oldest and the Traditions are the concepts that finally gave the necessary amount of order to the world's greatest anarchy.
		She was the managing partner of a large counseling practice and later the co-owner of a training and consulting firm in Tempe, Arizona.
	www.chaord.com /trustees/who_bord.html (2380 words)

	OtherWise Dee Hock - The Birth of the Chaordic Century: Out of Control and Into Order (Part 1 of 2)
		By chaord, I mean (1) any autocatalytic, self-regulating, adaptive, nonlinear, complex organism, organization or system, whether physical, biological or social, the behavior of which harmoniously exhibits characteristics of both order and chaos; (2) an entity whose behavior exhibits observable patterns and probabilities not governed or explained by the behavior of its parts.
		By chaordic, I mean essentially the same; the fundamental organizing principle of nature and evolution.
		I believed then and believe today that the power inherent in chaordic concepts of organization is immensely greater than the success of VISA would indicate, for we did not get it a quarter right and it has regressed substantially since.
	www.parshift.com /Speakers/Speak009.htm (3232 words)

	Collective Chaordic Spirit Proposal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Collective Chaordic Spirit project proposes to find, collect, document and publish a body of specific case examples of chaordic activity and the common characteristics, behaviors and patterns that create success.
		Phase 1 (a) leverages the Owning Members of the Chaordic Commons to identify prospective interviewees around the world; (b) develops the interview protocols and questionnaires; (c) uses volunteer project team members to conduct interviews; (d) compiles and analyzes data; and (e) publishes defined deliverables including Project Report, Asset Map and Chaordic Story Web-site.
		The project team is comprised of twenty-eight individuals educated and experienced in chaordic practice and principles.
	www.collectivechaordicspirit.com /proposal2.htm (333 words)

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