[P2P-F] [Commoning] new capitalism and commoning

[Denis Postle]

On 10/02/2011 13:35, Michel Bauwens wrote:
> Silke has asked several of us to refrain from further communication, 
> so I have sent a reply privately to Christian,

This has the virtue  of opening up a space where other perspectives 
might be of assistance.

This is this a research group so I'll free free to jump with an outline 
of a piece of research that, improprieties apart, can account for some 
of the miscommunication and disagreement that has been prevalent here 
lately.

A well validated piece of research, the Kirton Adaption Innovation [KAI] 
scale points to a spectrum of Creative Styles ranging from Adaptive to 
Innovative. The detail of the scale doesn't need to concern us here. 
What matters is that while the KAI says nothing about the value or 
amount of creativity a person manifests, it has a lot to offer about 
different approaches/styles through which we prefer to be creative, and 
how we view or engage in change.

Headlines: (keep in mind that the distribution in the researched 
populations is a bell curve)

People with an Adaptive style prefer evolution of the present as a form 
of change and seek to work within settled boundaries. They come up with 
few but realistic ideas and projects that are often implemented. They 
are often found settled near centres of power/influence.

People with a strong Innovative style tend to be outsiders or on the 
margins of institutions and prefer fresh starts and out of the box 
thinking. They are commonly prolific with lots of not very well grounded 
ideas, which they have difficulty in getting implemented. They may face 
considerable disappointment and rejection.

Why might this be relevant here? One of the outcomes of the KAI work is 
that it shows that people who are 10 points away from each other in 
style will need to take care to understand and be understood, and that 
people 2O points apart will likely see each other as aliens, wrong, 
impossible, problematic.

As a high innovator who's experienced enough rejection and 
disappointment I have moved, partly due the KAI perspective to respect 
for the more adaptive person's capacity to hold and sustain continuity, 
something I find hard to do. Conversely, organizations that become too 
dependent on Adaptive creativity tend to eventually slip into 
stagnation. The task for people with a highly adaptive style is to find 
respect for the alien innovators who want to overturn everything that is 
settled.

I hope this helps account for some of the current distance between list 
participants here.

Our server is down at the moment, when it is available, I'll post an 
introduction to the KAI.

Denis
>
> Michel
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Christian Siefkes 
> <christian at siefkes.net <mailto:christian at siefkes.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 02/10/2011 01:28 PM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
>     > Sorry Massimo, I can only judge from what I see on this list,
>     and I have a
>     > responsibility to my friends to warn them what they're getting
>     into; once
>     > they engage, it's their responsiblity, but they deserve a warning,
>     [...]
>     > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Massimo De Angelis
>     <commoning at gmail.com <mailto:commoning at gmail.com>
>     > <mailto:commoning at gmail.com <mailto:commoning at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     [...]
>     >     the same time you send emails to your greek friends warning
>     them I am a
>     >     sectarian always looking for a fight while saying "massimo
>     is part of
>     >     the radical set that always judges others to be coopted, and
>     always
>     >     calling for struggle, with little regard for constructive
>     altenatives,
>     >     and also little regard of whether a struggle can actually
>     win ... People
>     >     like him, and his associate martin pedersen usually like to
>     act as
>     >     troublemakers during conferences and such ... . "
>
>     Did you really write that, Michel?? I must say, I'm shocked. I
>     sometimes
>     disagree with what Massimo and Martin are saying, but I've not the
>     slightest
>     idea what made you label them as "troublemakers". Nor why you felt
>     to had to
>     send "warnings" to others. Surely we can do much, much, much
>     better than
>     that in our interactions with each other...
>
>     Best regards
>            Christian
>
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