• causally-effective protocols
• from FocusCoursevF
  • unlike "formal actors" who happy to work inside the existing rules and rolebound positions
  • "post-formal" actors want to work on the rules
  • they see the rules as the key leverage points for novel action
  • not enough merely to write new rules
  • go beyond rule-bound coordination of action
  • into protocol-afforded collaborative action and co-creative emergence
  • rules->protocols->action
    • e.g.: agile
      • they understood that the informal way they where working together was not incidental to their success. that it was actually part of their formula.
  • they call them principles but we see them as protocols. they took from the principles action-protocols
    • e.g. the scrum-cycle
  • What are action protocols?
    • Understanding the problem situation with a focus on action
      • action-bias
      • it moves the problem from analysis to someting we can work with
    • Acting to detect crucial cues from the enrivonment
      • action that reveal choice points
      • small incremental steps toward an end goal
    • Steering toward preferred futures
      • the end goal can shift
      • we can see preferred futures that were not there in the first place
      • move from situationn of problem and deliberation to desire and attraction toward a future that is preferred
  • 30 protocals (concentrator codes)
    • 7 contexts/series
      • launch code
        • for startup and start overs
        • also for initiating large system change
      • team codes
        • design to optimize team potential
      • people codes
        • relates to human dynamics
      • human systems codes
        • system properties of organizations
      • future code
        • advanced code for transforming work
      • future of work codes
        • codes for success in the new economy
      • our future at work
        • profiling next generation leaders
    • move from what is the case to what will be the case
    • 
  • FOcus on the problem you have. Apply the protocols you need.
    • Learning by doing lab
      • solution-focused
      • ready-at-hand
        • as you need them, go around and pick up the tools that you need
      • case in point/action inquiry
      • workbook & assessments
• capitalism is an action protocol
  • For example, we can think of finance capitalism as the action protocol that governs most of the procedures that are associated with the movement of natural resources in and out of various input-throughput systems around the world. Democracy can be viewed as an action protocol in a similar way.
• 1+1=2 is a action protocol

Examples

• Pit of success

Lookup

• https://bonnittaroy.substack.com/p/the-agent-in-the-machine
• [action generators](https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2022-12-20-17:21.html
• concepts.forcing-function
• mental-models