Explanation: Welcome to the Rhizome Labyrinth. The purpose of this page is to begin the RHIZOMATICS of TD Gameboard. As you descend beneath the ground you will be exploring root systems of systems and subterranean networks of networks. We rely on the lamplight of the rhizomatics theory of Deleuze and Guattari (1987) in their book One Thousand Plateaus to allow us to see the darkness of the labyrinth. We assume you have familiarity with the perspectives (disciplines & ontologies) of the 14 TD Gameboard Squares. If not return to TD Gameboard and review each of the 14 squares. Only square masters of the TD Gameboard can enter the Rhixome Labyrinth.

We will now be exploring various Rhizomatic strands of relationship among the squares. A Rhizome is not about some tree of knowledge of TD disciplines. A rhizome is the interlaced connections among the roots of many trees. Rhizomatics explores the subterrain. We are digging among the philosophical roots of TD Gameboard to unearth TUBERS. We left cryptic messages on the TD Gameboard among the various sques to give you hints of tubers. A tuber is defined as a network of intersecting roots that have cohered and grown into a HOLON (press here) that retains strands to its respective disciplinary initiators.

We dig to find tubers. The assumption we make is that TD interdisciplinary work can be envisioned and is going on in praxis in rhizomatic ways that makes for tubers. Easy examples of TUBERS: TD1, TD2, TD3, and TD4 have roots that connect the first four squares into several tubers, that the respective square-masters and disciples rarely reference one another (TD with a number refers to squares in the TD Gameboard). TD5 and TD9 are intertwining to form a tuber. In tuber digging work postmodern storytelling is used to deconstruct problem-saturated networks while simultaneously an appreciative inquiry takes place to find remnants of past success that can be stitched into a restorying. Consider appreciative inquiry doing a deviation counteracting loop in its digging, while restorying does a deviation-amplifying loop to break out of dominant tubers.

More complex tubers are formed of more than two tuber strands. As the various tubers form among two or several TD Gameboard squares, we assume that more complex inter-tuber relationships are beginning to be networked in domains of action and praxis. The result is a dynamic inter-tuber network within networks, systems within systems, and holons within holons. Tracing the labyrinths of this inter-tuber network allows us to gain understanding of transpersonal, transgroup, transorganizational, transystem, and transnational phenomenon. It is more than embedding these transcontexts, it is seeking a veiled peek at the collective dynamics of inter-tuber behavior among networks of persons, groups, organizations, systems, and nations on the many simultaneous local and global stages of late capitalism.

Tamara Networks - One final assumption: we assume that there are networks of Tamara Organizations. Each Tamara Organization (see TD 9 & 10) is a polyphonic and polycentered networking of simultaneous storytellings among wandering spec-actors. A spec-actors (see TD12) is a spectator turned actor and we assume that only in extreme cases of hegemony (see TD14) does one story one on stage define an organization. More frequent is a de-centered arena of many spec-actors chasing, tracing, constructing and deconstructing stories in the Tamara Organization. To understand this we explore the tuber of festival-spectacle, postmodern theatrics, restorying, and TD. At this inter-tuber transorganizational level, various Tamara Organizations (be they mono-logic in their telling or poly-logical) form Tamara Transorganizational Networks that can allow festivals within spectacular manifestations. To understand the collective dynamics of these trans-tuber realms requires interdisciplinary work we are initiating in the Rhizomatic Gameboard. The focus of the Rhizomatic Gameboard is no longer to compare and contrast the disciplines on the tree of TD knowledge it is to search for rhizomes of interdisciplinary theory and praxis. PRESS HERE to Enter TD Rhizomatic Gameboard Area
 

a 1. Forming TD2 Networks of Community Organizations	ý 2. PDPD-Participative Design for Participative Democracy (more TD2)	P 3. All other non-Emery Search Conference and Sociotechnical Systems Models	C 4. Action Research, Cooperative Inquiry, Action Science
I STOP 14. Attend Deprogram Classes Critical Theory	PRESS HERE to Enter TD Rhizomatic Gameboard Area		{ 5. Appreciative Inquiry
( 13. Network Organizations/ NETSIM			?6. Reengineering & new Wow and Reinventing Government
Ô 12. Postmodern           Theatrics			;7. Frameworks
% 11. Festival and                 Spectacle	t 10. Transorganization             Development	J 9. Restorying and Narrative Therapy	[ 8. Mythmaking Systems/Open Speces

PAPERS TO HELP GIVE YOU BACKGROUND:

Transorganizational Development and the Death of OD 
By David M. Boje October 3, 1999 (press here) 
 

Who Rules Large System TD Billion Dollar Consulting? David M. Boje, October 6, 1999 (press here) 
 

"Storytelling and the Collective Dynamics of Transorganizational Networking" David M. Boje October 7, 1999 (press here).
 

"Chaos and Complexity in Supply Chain Transorganizational Development Networking"  {October  9, 1999e} (press here).
 

Press (here) for TD1/TD2 Tables 
 

Press (here) for letter explaining this project.

TD TRAINING PROGRAMS

We also do workshops for doctorate programs in Large Systems Change, such as Benedictine University, Pepperdine University, and do multi-firm strategic planning and environmental accounting. We offer the following consulting tools for multi-stakeholder networking:

Press to return to TD tables or to TD Game Board or  dfor a TD narrative.