Core Chemistry

We have inherited simple narratives reinforced with the clarity of hierarchy.  The simplest narrative is lines as per an organizational chart.  The most obvious alternative is to operate with a circle as per organizational chart.  The smart narrative is have the benefit of both but not as an organizational relationship.

One smart narrative is the hexagonal vision I have for our club membership.  When we are not familiar with this narrative, we have little conception how this would work but if I outline a point which was made in an Economist article about Span of Control, this may help understand this conception but still not bring club members onside as to how leadership operates in this way.

The section of interest from the Economist is

One manager and six subordinates, for instance, create 222 relationships among the seven of them; one manager and 16 subordinates create over 500,000 relationships.
Idea adapted from a Tim Hindle Book in Economist

This is how I look at the "hexagonal vision" linked above - in terms of relationships.  Those six relationships represent the inner chemistry or core chemistry of the club.

The outer chemistry the "hexagonal vision" are colour code and they represent the relational chemistry of each set of coloured hexagons.  A simple narrative is seeing the hexagonal vision as one whole, but the smart narrative is seeing the hexagonal vision as chemistry, where the chemistry is only fixed at the core or inner chemistry.  Then each chain of relations is seen as bonded to the whole but also infinitely configurable.  If we work on the Tim Hindle number above of 222 relationships - the hexagonal organizational structure is more efficient than either the line or circle chart.

That is why I want both the line and circle for they have an important binary meaning :

1 - 0

The hexagon is both circle and line.

In chemistry molecular hexagons can be drawn in what is called chickenwire formats - these notations can be adapted to an organizational setting utilizing a different taxonomy, because in an organization we are describing relationships as chemistry rather than chemistry as elements.  While the hexagon is adopted as a natural form in chemistry, a short film called the Triumph of the Hexagon reiterates the power of this geometry.

The inner chemistry or core is the simplest form to grasp in terms of an organizational design concept, and it should lead to an understanding that it is more than a span of control of 6, but that every executive hexagon that is attached to the center is a fractal relationship of the leader. It is the most efficient way of moving from the idea of a span of control to a true team relationship, where the chemistry of this core can be readily seen, once we think in this way.

At the start of the century I had joined a Company of Friends group in Istanbul where I became friends with Tayfun Demiroz, who now lives in Australia.  At the time I had thrown out this idea to his group to try to form a hexagonal type organizational relationship.  I lived too far from Istanbul to be on the ground to further develop this.  In 2014 I tried again with another Toastmasters club called City Centre (from which the name CityVP originally derived) but my tenure at that club was short-lived.  Now at the college campus club this is my third experimentation, but this time I am not assuming that others in the club get this idea - instead I am here at beBEE experimenting with these ideas at a more global level, which is different from the local level relationship and responsibility I have to the club as one of its elected executives.

There is plenty of people associating things with bees on this site, for naturally even if the hive we create represents our individual affinity, all these individual affinities are in a group called beBee.  From that perspective the most I want to go is to understand the virtuous nature of bees and differentiate that from the vicious nature of bee ecosystems.  To examine a mathematical relationship at the human level incurs the same perspective - there is the beauty of mathematics and their is the boredom of mathematics - this means that mathematics can be taught in a boring manner (which is how the education system normally delivers it) or it can be taught in a beautiful manner (which is more rare) but which is what mathematics should be.

Extrapolate this view of mathematics to the life of a bee and people have done some beautiful things with it and the two video's that follow are an aside from the thoughts I have put forth about Core Chemistry (as an organizational concept) and instead directly looking at the world of bee's and the structure of honeycombs in an elegant two part video :

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