Rules of the garage
• Believe you can change the world.
• Work quickly, keep the tools unlocked, work whenever.
• Know when to work alone and when to work together.
• Share — tools, ideas. Trust your colleagues.
• No politics. No bureaucracy. (These are ridiculous in a garage.)
• The customer defines a job well done.
• Radical ideas are not bad ideas.
• Invent different ways of working.
• Make a contribution every day. If it doesn’t contribute, it doesn’t leave the garage.
• Believe that together we can do anything.
• Invent.
1999 HP Annual Report
In light of many recent conversations, I’m now renaming some of the shadow conversations, particularly the “Consensus” conversation to the “Postponement” conversation. This is the conversation where we ask the question, “What permissions and agreements do we need?” It’s the conversation of postponements of what’s possible.
Posted a handful of Frequently Asked Questions on the Intentional Model site.
The question include:
Is the model for grassroots or institutional efforts?
How small should small acts be?
How does the model help us get to scale and speed?
What kind of community leadership does the model require?
What’s the role of ideas in the model?
How much funding does the model require?
Another example of the shadow conversation for Invitation is about what we can do on our own. We need to be careful about isolation and protectiveness as ways of limiting our resources and the possibilities of scale. Underutilized abundance exists in every community. Engaging it is a worthy conversation.
One of the theme of Radical Transitions that resonates with people that we share the model with is the realization that their process is stuck in what we refer to as a shadow conversation—conversations that can’t build community. Last night I was talking with someone whose group is bogged down trying to build consensus for a new logo and tagline that will be used to market a district. What to do about it? We propose:
The reality is that we don’t need to agree on everything for any of us to take action in the direction of our dreams. There are many small acts and invitations that do not require permission, support, or even interest from the whole.
Could that work for your group?
An Intentional Model - Shadow Conversations
When a community is vital, 5 kinds of connections occur. People know each other, look out for each other, connect each other, barter with each other, and engage each other.
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