chaordic

In our fast paced world, we are forced on a daily basis to deal with changing and chaordic work environments.

The chaordic structure allowed the system to grow quickly but also left the system vulnerable to fraud.

Here is more on the chaordic principle that I sensed was missing from the firstmondy item linked below.

This communication workshop provides a forum for staff to explore the chaordic communication principles of chaos and order.

He has been particularly interested in forms of organization that are neither rigidly controlled nor anarchic, a hybrid form he terms chaordic.

Chaordic Commons facilitate access to knowledge about chaordic organizations and organizing.

Simudyne a chaordic organisation.

The chaordic principles have also been used as guidelines for creating human organizations - business, nonprofit, government and hybrids-that would be neither centralized nor anarchical networks.

Editor's Note: Dee Hock is responsible for the "chaordic" organizational structure of VISA, which propelled it into the largest credit card company in the world.

Dee Hock, the founder of Visa, has called this kind of self-organization among equally empowered participants "chaordic" in that it encompasses elements of both chaos and order.

FarmFolk/CityFolk has all the characteristics of a chaordic organization: it is highly decentralized and highly collaborative and (like a living organism) is complex, adaptive and self-organizing.

In February 1994, Hock accepted a grant from the Joyce Foundation for his travel expenses to study the possibilities of implementing chaordic organizations for a year and to report back.

The RGT was organized as a chaordic network of barter clubs, which had a clientele from a well educated middle class that had fallen into unemployment during the Argentine recession of the late 1990s.

Philosophy In fast-moving chaordic organisations the role of the leader moves away from directing and controlling and centres around meaning: giving meaning to all those who need to make sense of what's happening to the organisation and their own lives.

Hock has authored a book on the subject, Birth of the Chaordic Age (1999) with an edition named One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization (2005) which includes two new chapters.

On March 13, 1993, Hock gave a dinner speech at the Santa Fe Institute where based on his experiences founding and operating Visa International he described systems that are both chaotic and ordered, and used for the first time the term "chaord" and chaordic, a portmanteau combining the words chaos and order.