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!

@hackofalltrades / morelikepeople.org / liam@morelikepeople.org