1993 |
Dee Hock travels to the Sante
Fe Institute to explore advances in complexity theory and
make first speech on "chaords." Meets Joel Getzendanner, vice
president of the Joyce Foundation.
Hock articulates four
conditions that would need to be met to avoid massive
institutional failure.
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1994 |
Hock meets with Joyce Foundation board, staff and grantees.
Agrees to accept a one-year grant to explore whether any of
the four conditions might be possible to achieve.
Nonprofit formed under the name Alliance for Community Liberty.
Hock begins work with the Appleseed
Foundation and an informal group of state directors from
the agricultural extension service, each considering the formation
of a chaordic organization.
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1995 |
Hock concludes that the four objectives are achievable if
a concerted effort is made, and dedicates the rest of his
life to pursuing them.
A group of fisherman and environmentalists consider the
possibility of using chaordic principles to revitalize the
fisheries in the Gulf of Maine, and begin an effort to form
the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA).
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1996 |
Peter Senge and the Society
for Organizational Learning asks Hock to help them reconceive
their governance structure along chaordic lines.
Nonprofit renamed to The Chaordic Alliance. Offices are
opened in Half Moon Bay, CA, donated by Odwalla Corporation.
The Appleseed Foundation completes the redesign of its
governance.
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1997 |
The Chaordic Alliance begins work with the Integrated Food
and Farming Systems, a project of the Kellogg Foundation,
to create new organization to link ecological, economic and
community concerns through the food production system, now
known as Community Alliances of Interdependent AgriCulture
(CAIA).
Discussions begin with United
Religions Initiative on the creation of a chaordic organization
to end religious violence.
The Society for Organizational Learning competes its design
process, and begins accepting members.
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1998 |
Intensive work continues with NAMA, CAIA and URI.
A series of conversations within the health care field
leads to discussions with the Veterans Administration and
an expanding group of health care providers to explore the
creation of a chaordic organization for the evolution of health
care. In 1999, this effort names itself the Vvaleo
initiative, and continues explorations.
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1999 |
The Chaordic Alliance (TCA) establishes a satellite office
in Olympia, WA.
NAMA approaches completion on constitution and receives
application from first community alliance member. CAIA approaches
completion on constitution.
Exploratory conversations begin to reconceive the National
Spatial Data Infrastructure as a chaordic organization.
Tom Hurley joins TCA as its first managing director.
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Four Conditions for Catalyzing Institutional
Change
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Creation of a dozen or more examples of new, successful
chaordic organizations. Ideally, these organizations will
span such diverse areas as education, government, social services,
commerce, and the environment, to demonstrate that chaordic
concepts have universal applicability. Develop methods and
resources to help both existing and new institutions through
the process of reconceiving themselves.
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Development of visual and physical models
of chaordic organizations so that people have something
to examine, experiment with, and compare to existing organizations.
The models must contain the ethical and spiritual dimensions
generally lacking in current models. In addition, computer simulations
will need to be created to allow people to quickly see how clarity
of purpose and principles allow institutions to self-organize,
evolve over decades, and link in new patterns for an enduring
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Development and dissemination of an impeccable
intellectual foundation for chaordic organizations. The
intellectual foundation must integrate the economic, scientific,
political, historical, technical, social, and philosophical
rationale for such organizations and establish the common language
and metaphors necessary for widespread understanding of chaordic
concepts. |
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Creation of a global institution, itself a successful
example of chaordic organization, for the sole purpose of
developing, disseminating, and implementing chaordic concepts
of organization, linking individuals, institutions, and groups
of all kinds committed to institutional and societal reconstruction
in a vast web of shared learning. It must enable people to
pursue new organizational concepts in unique ways, on any
scale, at anytime, for their own reasons.
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