Practical Aspects of Collaboration

Based on learnings from Jimmy Lin on running a high performance nonprofit R&D organization, there are clear ways we can apply the learnings to ose. First, focus on skilled professionals. Minimum time requirement. Intensive recruiting process starting with job description. Manager and leader on each team. Quick to fire, slow to hire. 3 paid staff, 100 volunteers. Careful matching of person to the task. Virtual operation. 2 year avg retention. 1 of 8 work out, 1 in 4 are hired. Screening application, interview, and then final interview. Clear roadmap.

For OSE, hiring based on clarity of tasks. Careful guarding of mission drift. Focus on R&D and 10 year plan. Note that what we do is impossible: there is no company that does our breadth, typically, outside of Edison and largest corporations. Think and treat it as hiring, you get an opportunity for meaning, not doing us a favor. 'Doing us a favor' check. No people in between jobs. Work with SMEs. Need to get ownership of projects. Product leader vs participant. Towards leadership, Current State must be understood. Leadership Exam - what are the current states, directions, priorities, and fit in greater picture? What can you commit?

Assessment

An important part of the gvcs is integration of the Set with supporting technology. This provides a feedback loop for the feasibility of the GVCS as a minimum set. Multipurpose technologies are considered at all times, such as biochar for fertility, vehicle fuel, oxy-charges metal cutting on the CNC torch table, on-demand electrical production, diesel synthesis, smelting of iron, and domestic water heating - integrated with the Pelletizer for animal feed and the baler/combine for continuous, mobile pellet production. This can be extended to sawmill infrastructure where the sawdust can likewise be used to make pellets. This is an excellent example of how stacking of functions can be applied in the. GVcS - while providing feedback regarding an integrated technology set.

The assessment team is responsible for mapping out such product ecologies prior to design work being done.