Radical Reframe: OD as an Infinite Game April 30, 2014 Glenda Eoyang, PhD Human Systems Dynamics Institute HSD Institute. Use with permission. 1OD Forum Spring 2014 Whats the game? Whats the frame? How do we play? Now What? HSD Institute. Use with permission. 2OD Forum Spring 2014 Radical Reframe Whats the game? HSD Institute. Use with permission. 3OD Forum Spring 2014 Radical Reframe Static Change HSD Institute. Use with permission. 4HSDP Cohort 34 Three Kinds of Change Method StaticDynamicDynamical Point A to point B Dont care what happens in between Main problem: resistance Solution: push harder Examples: Outcome mgt Motivation Facilities change And... HSD Institute. Use with permission. 5HSDP Cohort 34 Dynamic Change HSD Institute. Use with permission. 6HSDP Cohort 34 Three Kinds of Change Method StaticDynamicDynamical Point A to point B Dont care what happens in between Main problem: resistance Solution: push harder Examples: Outcome mgt Motivation Facilities change And... Follow smooth path Know initial and predict end point Main problem: disruption Solution: blame someone Examples: Project mgt Stages of change Planning And... HSD Institute. Use with permission. 7HSDP Cohort 34 Dynamical Change HSD Institute. Use with permission. 8HSDP Cohort 34 Three Kinds of Change Method StaticDynamicDynamical Point A to point B Dont care what happens in between Main problem: resistance Solution: push harder Examples: Outcome mgt Motivation Facilities change And... Follow smooth path Know initial and predict end point Main problem: disruption Solution: blame someone Examples: Project mgt Stages of change Planning And... Tension and release Change at one scale bursts through Main problem: unpredictability Solution: watch for patterns Examples: Ahas in learning Innovation Economic collapse And... HSD Institute. Use with permission. 9HSDP Cohort 34 Static Dynamic Dynamical Using Three Kinds of Change HSD Institute. Use with permission. 10HSDP Cohort 34 Now what questions inform OD for each kind of change? Finite GameInfinite Game Field of play Opponents Rules Expertise Purpose: To Win Unbounded All players Changing rules Looking for fit Purpose: Keep Playing The Rules Are Changing HSDP 2014 HSD Institute. Use with permission. 11 Finite GameInfinite Game Field of play Opponents Rules Expertise Purpose: To Win Unbounded All players Changing rules Looking for fit Purpose: Keep Playing The Rules Are Changing HSDP 2014 HSD Institute. Use with permission. 12 Finite GameInfinite Game Field of play Opponents Rules Expertise Purpose: To Win Unbounded All players Changing rules Looking for fit Purpose: Keep Playing The Rules Are Changing HSDP 2014 HSD Institute. Use with permission. 13 Finite GameInfinite Game Field of play Opponents Rules Expertise Purpose: To Win Unbounded All players Changing rules Looking for fit Purpose: Keep Playing The Rules Are Changing HSDP 2014 HSD Institute. Use with permission. 14 Now what questions inform OD for each kind of game? Whats the frame? HSD Institute. Use with permission. 15OD Forum Spring 2014 Radical Reframe Finite GameInfinite Game Framing the Game HSD Institute. Use with permission. 16HSDP 2014 Finite GameInfinite Game ClosedOpen HSD Institute. Use with permission. 17HSDP 2014 Framing the Game Finite GameInfinite Game ClosedOpen Low Dimension High Dimension HSD Institute. Use with permission. 18HSDP 2014 Framing the Game Finite GameInfinite Game ClosedOpen Low Dimension High Dimension LinearNonlinear HSD Institute. Use with permission. 19HSDP 2014 Framing the Game Now what questions inform OD for each condition? How do we play? HSD Institute. Use with permission. 20OD Forum Spring 2014 Radical Reframe Choices for Fit Where are you now? What would be more fit to purpose? How can we take action to move in the right direction? HSD Institute. Use with permission. 21OD Forum Spring 2014 What can you know about a CAS? Patterns similarities, differences, and connections that have meaning across space and time. HSD Institute. Use with permission. 22Reform So what? Now what? What ? Short/fast Local/global Private/public Theory/practice Formal/informal Physical/emotional Org/culture And... 2014 HSD Institute. Use with permission APR14 Adaptive Action Influence Patterns What ? What is the pattern? What is the same? What is different? What is connected? And... 2014 HSD Institute. Use with permission APR14 Adaptive Action See Patterns So what? What ? So what is the tension? So what could be: More same? More different? More connected? Less connected? And... 2014 HSD Institute. Use with permission APR14 Adaptive Action Understand Patterns So what? Now what? What ? Now what will you do to change: Sameness Difference Connection And... 2014 HSD Institute. Use with permission APR14 Adaptive Action Influence Patterns Now What? HSD Institute. Use with permission. 27OD Forum Spring 2014 Radical Reframe Your Adaptive Action What patterns do you see in your current projects? So what options for action do you and your clients have? Now what will you do to play your infinite game? HSD Institute. Use with permission. 28OD Forum Spring 2014 Resources Eoyang, G. "Toward a Computational Model of Complex Human Systems Dynamics." In How Nature Works: Complexity in Interdisciplinary Research and Applications. Heidelberg: Springer, Eoyang, G. & R. Holladay. Adaptive Action: Leveraging uncertainty in your organization. San Francisco: Stanford University Press, Eoyang, G. Conditions for self-organizing in human systems. Unpublished doctoral dissertation The Union Institute and University, Olson, E. & G. Eoyang. Facilitating Organization Change: Lessons from Complexity Science. Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, On the web: hsdinstitute.org adaptiveaction.org wiki.hsdinstitute.org HSD Institute. Use with permission. 29OD Forum Spring 2014 Patterns of Best & Worst Name of the Game OD as Adaptive Action Now What? HSD Institute. Use with permission. 30OD Forum Spring 2014 Radical Reframe