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

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…

By Felix – February 9, 2012

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

Last year, on the first leg of my…

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…

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…

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] 

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…

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…