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Sociocracy: revolution, chocolate, peace, work - a history…

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Or The gulf between what we want and where we are

‘A plane is on the wrong course 90% of the time’

I was reminded of this nugget of wisdom today, while assessing where I’m at, where I’m going, where I said I wanted to go, and the habits that help or hinder my progress.



Of course aeroplanes…

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By Felix – February 9, 2012

Reposted from http://felixwetzel.com/ - full link below

Last year, on the first leg of my…

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It’s the culture stupid

I liked this blog post by Neil Crofts, so I decided to repost it here. It is not explicitly about sociocracy, but it does touch on some of the themes of collaborative governance, facilitative leadership and organisational democracy, and dovetails neatly with what you will find in these parts. In particular the split between operations and policy, empowerment, ownership and responsibility, and Vision - Martin…

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Article by Nathaniel Whitestone, DecisionLab



Co-operative Principles



I am passionate about economic democracy — not so much in the sense of majority rule voting, but in the sense of the people involved in something controlling it together. Some people have argued that, for this purpose, organising as a sociocratic business is better than organising as a co-operative business. Sociocratic businesses allow their members to participate in…

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Saw this post (and the previous one & video linked to in the first sentence), and thought I'd re-post here; it's a neat summary, inspired by one person's journey into Sociocracy (via John Buck & Sharon Villines book 'We The People...' [from Twitter DecisionLab DLabCoop] 

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London was burning.  The world saw an Arab Spring, and in London and San Francisco — across Europe and North America — we celebrated other people’s civil discontent as a sign of positive transformation.  Why did we not celebrate our own civil unrest?

 

One reason is that, unlike the protests against cuts in student benefits earlier in the year, there are no clear causes being promoted.  The people looting shops and starting fires have no signs, no social media groups — their…

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John Bristow recently interviewed Nate for Societal Innovation And Learning; John writes a short explanation of what the Sociocratic model of Governance is about, and features several short videos of Nate entertaining with a discussion of the historical, political and philosophical context, hierarchy and control in organisations, and how to use Collaborative… Continue

Though it may not be obvious here on the Sociocracy UK  Ning site, there is a lot of activity going on behind the scenes.  One of the projects being worked on is "Marketing Sociocracy to Business", which is an attempt to introduce collaborative governance to forward thinking businesses, such as SMEs, social entrepreneurships, cooperatives, organisations with democratic mindsets and workplaces seeking new models of… Continue

The latest DecisionLab blog article is up, by Julian Howell, which compares these two diverse yet fundamentally related approaches....

Sociocracy – a permaculture way to organise?

 

Sociocracy – the term means ‘collaborative governance’ – hard-wires ‘People Care’ and ‘Fair Share’ into the fabric of an organisation by ensuring that every member has an equivalent voice in policy. Like other living systems a sociocratic organisation relies…

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Leaders, business schools, politicians, communities and organisations around the country seem to agree that after the 2008 crash the societal system as we know it no longer works, and our way of living and running our organisations is not sustainable. All seem to be grappling to find new ways of doing things, yet in the vacuum everything seems to revert to the status quo. Of course, as Einstein said, you don't solve problems with the same ideas that created them, so our current leaders may not… Continue

Anyone interested in sociocracy in Scotland, either in accessing training or offrering training?

Please get in touch with me.

walking through brixton yesterday and met felix, who is going to make a film about the collaborative growth of TTB. he makes amazing films, we were really lucky to have him working with the Brixton Pound.

looking forward to what will happen. Thanks Felix