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: 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: 22 Sep 23
By Ted Rau and originally published in an email, a press release, and on LinkedIn.com In four weeks, Sociocracy for All will be ready to publish a new book that I wrote. The book will be called Collective Power. Patterns for A Self-organized Future. What “Collective Power” is The intention of the book is to show the underlying patterns of collaboration in groups. The better we understand the patterns of cooperation, the better we can design systems where humans thrive. Those conceptual parts are intermixed with stories. People often say, “This was a great training, but the stories you tell
By Ted Rau and originally published in an email, a press release, and on LinkedIn.com In four weeks, Sociocracy for All will be ready to publish a new book that I wrote. The book will be called Collective Power. Patterns for A Self-organized Future. What “Collective Power” is The intention of the book is to show the underlying patterns of
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 24 Aug 23
By Ted Rau for Enlivening Edge Magazine [Enlivenning Edge is happy to be an affiliate ecosystem partner recommending this conference.] Let’s play good news and bad news. The good news is that I’m seeing more and more self-management and trust-ful and leader-ful organizations emerge, or traditional organizations that include more patterns of shared responsibility. What’s the bad news? I’m worried. I’m worried because I think the movement has significant gaps. Let me explain. Every organization consists of team-level and organization-level functions. (See, for example the Viable Systems Model) The team level functions do the major work of the organization— producing
By Ted Rau for Enlivening Edge Magazine [Enlivenning Edge is happy to be an affiliate ecosystem partner recommending this conference.] Let’s play good news and bad news. The good news is that I’m seeing more and more self-management and trust-ful and leader-ful organizations emerge, or traditional organizations that include more patterns of shared responsibility. What’s the bad news? I’m worried.