
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Apr 24
By Ted Rau of sociocracyforall and originally an email There are two and a half major changes that sociocracy brings to organizations. more clarity on who decides what more clarity on how we decide more clarity on how to decide who decides what (and who decides who decides what) Of course, all those parts are interconnected. For example, if a group is not clear about what it can decide, it will likely bounce around and have a hard time coming to any decision. Futhermore, if decision-making domains aren’t aligned well with the doings of the organization, then it will be
By Ted Rau of sociocracyforall and originally an email There are two and a half major changes that sociocracy brings to organizations. more clarity on who decides what more clarity on how we decide more clarity on how to decide who decides what (and who decides who decides what) Of course, all those parts are interconnected. For example, if a

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Mar 24
by Jorn van der Schaaf and originally published at Corporate Rebels Meet Ivy Global – a tech sector standout where students and entry-level professionals tackle projects that align with their knowledge and skill levels. This way, they gain valuable hands-on work experience under the professional guidance of Ivy’s permanent staff, while companies can have projects executed at a relatively low cost. To manage these processes effectively, inspired by the self-organization principles of the Brazilian company Semco, Ivy chose to establish the company in a modern way with the goal of emphasizing self-organization. In a decade, Ivy has grown into a company
by Jorn van der Schaaf and originally published at Corporate Rebels Meet Ivy Global – a tech sector standout where students and entry-level professionals tackle projects that align with their knowledge and skill levels. This way, they gain valuable hands-on work experience under the professional guidance of Ivy’s permanent staff, while companies can have projects executed at a relatively low cost.

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 7 Mar 24
By Susan Basterfield and Brent Lowe and Travis Marsh, originally published on Youtube If you want people to make the same decisions that you would make, but in a more scalable way, they need to have the same information that you have. In our fast-paced world, members of our teams need to make increasingly complex decisions more often. Transparency ensures everyone has the information to make good decisions and it requires more than just the free flow of data. Decision-making requires the capacity to turn information into meaningful, actionable insights. Done well, transparency can boost business results, breed trust, help
By Susan Basterfield and Brent Lowe and Travis Marsh, originally published on Youtube If you want people to make the same decisions that you would make, but in a more scalable way, they need to have the same information that you have. In our fast-paced world, members of our teams need to make increasingly complex decisions more often. Transparency ensures

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 23 Jan 24
Enlivening Edge Magazine Editor’s note: Cecile Green will be the featured Storyteller in the Deepening Our Resonance conversation among Enlivening Edge Community Hub members on February 1. She’ll share her personal journey of studying power and how to distribute it. Click here to join the Hub by January 30. See also her EE Magazine article on navigating Founder’s Syndrome. Originally published on YouTube There are so many of us attempting to move our world to a healthier place, and even with the growing networks, we remain not only largely uncoordinated but are also having to split our precious attention resources
Enlivening Edge Magazine Editor’s note: Cecile Green will be the featured Storyteller in the Deepening Our Resonance conversation among Enlivening Edge Community Hub members on February 1. She’ll share her personal journey of studying power and how to distribute it. Click here to join the Hub by January 30. See also her EE Magazine article on navigating Founder’s Syndrome. Originally

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 28 Nov 23
Enlivening Edge Magazine Editor’s note: For many EE Magazine articles on decision making click here. For detailed comparisons check this out. By Lennard Toma and originally published as a single article in the Corporate Rebels blog When it comes to decision-making, there are several types of consent to choose from. Which one is best for your organization? Should you know and use all of them, depending on the issue at hand? In this post, we’ll take a closer look at four of the most popular consent decision-making methods. While the consensus and authoritarian methods have some drawbacks, the consent format
Enlivening Edge Magazine Editor’s note: For many EE Magazine articles on decision making click here. For detailed comparisons check this out. By Lennard Toma and originally published as a single article in the Corporate Rebels blog When it comes to decision-making, there are several types of consent to choose from. Which one is best for your organization? Should you know

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 28 Nov 23
By Lennard Toma and originally published as a single article in the Corporate Rebels blog First read Part 1 of this article here, which describes each of 4 decision-making processes and its advantages and disadvantages.. Comparison When examining these four methods, it becomes clear that they are distinct from one another. S3 and IDM share many features, but Deep Democracy and the Advice Process adopt different perspectives and unique foundational positions. Deep Democracy appears to be particularly effective for complex decisions that require everyone to be involved and approve the outcome, while S3, IDM, and the Advice Process are all
By Lennard Toma and originally published as a single article in the Corporate Rebels blog First read Part 1 of this article here, which describes each of 4 decision-making processes and its advantages and disadvantages.. Comparison When examining these four methods, it becomes clear that they are distinct from one another. S3 and IDM share many features, but Deep Democracy

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 12 Sep 23
By Sally McCutchion and originally published on medium.com About 18 months ago, I joined the Greaterthan ecosystem and it’s been a real pleasure collaborating, conspiring and connecting with a bunch of folk from around the world who do work that’s connected to what I do. One of the more recent conversations I had with my Greaterthan colleague Lyssa Adkins, was connected to the principles of role mapping. This is a key part of the Holacracy practice so it’s been in my toolkit for almost 10 years now. However, the way that I introduce this process to companies and the benefits that it brings is
By Sally McCutchion and originally published on medium.com About 18 months ago, I joined the Greaterthan ecosystem and it’s been a real pleasure collaborating, conspiring and connecting with a bunch of folk from around the world who do work that’s connected to what I do. One of the more recent conversations I had with my Greaterthan colleague Lyssa Adkins, was connected to the principles

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 12 Aug 23
By Sally McCutchion and originally published on medium.com When your business is in its infancy, and it’s just you and your co-founder or maybe a small team of people who were involved since day one, consensus-think is one of the joys of working together. That time when you can all sit around one table and be fully aligned to the vision, purpose and mission is an exciting and fulfilling time. It often feels like you can read each other’s minds because you’re so close to the source moment of the business. The potency of the vision and the direction you’re heading
By Sally McCutchion and originally published on medium.com When your business is in its infancy, and it’s just you and your co-founder or maybe a small team of people who were involved since day one, consensus-think is one of the joys of working together. That time when you can all sit around one table and be fully aligned to the vision,

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 31 Jul 23
A response for those longing for healthy team dynamics by Samantha Slade, April Charlo, and Erika Koskela. Originally published on percolab.com Snqweylmistn is an indigenous organization in the USA, learning how to run a business that honors its traditional ways of leading. Percolab Coop Canada supports organizations to grow participatory and inclusive structure and culture based on a body of work from the book Going Horizontal. Collaborating since 2022, the two organizations feel that the challenges they are working through are common to many organizations, indigenous or not, and are co-writing a few articles based on reflections on their work.
A response for those longing for healthy team dynamics by Samantha Slade, April Charlo, and Erika Koskela. Originally published on percolab.com Snqweylmistn is an indigenous organization in the USA, learning how to run a business that honors its traditional ways of leading. Percolab Coop Canada supports organizations to grow participatory and inclusive structure and culture based on a body of

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 16 Jul 23
By Radical Purpose and originally published at radicalpurpose.org “I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. — Albert Einstein, Physicist Collaboration is a fundamental part of the future of work. When we remove the Force Paradigm, it becomes clear we need new ways of seeing and interacting with each other. The new world of collaboration requires that we co-create new tools. We have co-created an open-source Collaborative Operating Agreement as a way to facilitate the development of new collaboratives. The Collaborative Project is an open-source project to co-create Needs-Paradigm-based collaboratives to demonstrate the benefits and
By Radical Purpose and originally published at radicalpurpose.org “I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. — Albert Einstein, Physicist Collaboration is a fundamental part of the future of work. When we remove the Force Paradigm, it becomes clear we need new ways of seeing and interacting with each other. The new world of collaboration
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