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Laura Hilliger is a writer, educator and technologist. She’s a multimedia designer and developer, a technical liaison, a project manager, an open web advocate who is happiest in collaborative environments. She’s a co-founder of We Are Open Co-op, an Ambassador for Opensource.com, is working to help open up Greenpeace, and a Mozilla alum. Find her on Twitter and Mastodon as @epilepticrabbit
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Thank you for underlining the transient nature of what some call the "open ethos". In the open source community it's quite common that people seek to learn and shift their perspectives in search of "a better way". I think that much of "open management" is about leadership development and people taking the initiative to learn mindfulness and self awareness in order to better collaborate. For me, this is rooted in philosophy and personal enlightenment, and I appreciate how your foreward to the Open Organization Field Guide encapsulates that so eloquently.
Yes, transparency in restructuring is especially important. When it doesn't happen (or doesn't happen well), there are residual effects that become very challenging. Particularly when the restructuring results in people losing jobs or switching jobs or needing to reapply for jobs – it becomes a mess and at the end moral can be super low. I'm starting to think that every org over 20 people should have a position focusing on internal culture...maybe this is HR's job, but I've seen loads of HR departments that are 180 degrees from innovative :/