How do you make a #decision with a group of people? In some activist circles a #sociocracy method of "consent" decision making has become popular.
In a new post on Indoxicate I try to clear up some of the confusion around this idea, and I articulate a criticism that should (I think) be taken seriously by the movement.
The method, whatever it virtues, has little to do with #consent. By using the term nonetheless, groups run a risk of cultivating an abusive practice.
That’s okay as your perspective, I would like you to consider that Motion Twin is not remote so those are different project ideas. I would say it depends on how you approach those types of projects. Realistically the scope of what I can accomplish solo is different to the one even in a small team, and the vision that I create solo certainly will not be the same as the vision that would get created from a collaborative process utilizing methods like Sociocracy. I already got some interest from 2 other people, in practice from my experience even between 2 persons team and a solo team there is an enormous difference, that’s why I am searching for some hypothetical collaborators. I agree that this is a very competetive market, I think that in practice almost everywhere there is some competition and I would rather work on things that interest me. I think every moment that I don’t murder myself I risk that I will die of more painful death than what I could give myself through picking the most appropriate form of suicide, so I am personally fine with risk and if someone is not then that’s fine.
Cynosuralism is one of my own interpretations of libertarian political philosophy. I had originally named it as “Sociocratic Confederalism” as it is heavily inspired by Democratic Confederalism, Communalism, Libertarian Municipalism, and Social Ecology, all of which are interconnected amongst themselves....
How would an #anticapitalistBusiness do meetings?
Cooperative, nonprofit, b-corp … whatever you want to found.
If you're serious you're #anticapitalist, give this a moment of your energy: What is the real difference?
@dajb I have not seen RadHR! this looks awesome.
I've heard of Sociocracy, but haven't heard of people practicing. Or even talking about it, really. But I will try to get into those conversations, thanks. Glad you reminded me.
🤔I got asked about this yesterday from a neighbor, a teacher in our local school district.
Teacher: "Isn't AI 4 to 5 times faster/better at coding than the best developers?"
Me: "Isn't AI 4 to 5 times faster/better at teaching than the best teachers?”
(shocked/disgusted look on her face)
🤷 And that's one of the problems of AI. It seems better than you at something you know nothing about because you don't quite know well enough to call it out on its bullshit. https://toot.cafe/@baldur/112031199817039932
@webology yes, especially the management that's only supposed to balance opionions and make decisions based on worker knowledge 💯️ But then again, I think that also organization methods like sociocracy can get companies far without AI.
It's funny how at this stage AI can be perceived as so flawed that suggesting to replace someone with it reminds a bit of the old sysadmin t-shirt "go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script" 👯♂️️
The people who came up with the ideas were Dannemiller (Whole Scale Change and the change formula) and Pesut (who seems to like workshop / games etc) - so looks more focused on productive communication between silos.
Anyway, could definitely be used for this - and/but 'I will try' is a get-out answer which would defuse the entire power of Promise-Based Management and of which Flores would highly disapprove 🙂
"Demokratie" - eine abstrakte Worthülse?
Ich glaube, dass demokratische Prozesse für viele Menschen "zu weit weg" stattfinden. Dass in Schulen, Institutionen, Arbeitsplätzen zu wenige gute Erfahrungen mit Partizipation, Selbstorganisation und gemeinsamen Entscheidungen machen.
#SOZIOKRATIE ist ein Modell, das dies ändern will. Sie ermöglicht effektive, agile Selbstorganisation in Teams und Organisationen. Demokratie zum Anfassen. Mitgestaltung zum Dran-Gewöhnen.
Finally! A sociocracy product! The first two of the S3 Canvas series are live. You can fill out the canvas for free, then download your data and import it later to edit.
The S3 Organization Canvas and S3 Delegation canvas have different styles, tell us which you like. https://www.ultri.com/canvas/
Overview: The article discusses the interplay between decentralized and centralized aspects of governance in the context of decentralized self- governance and shares learnings from Sociocracy For All’s (SoFA) experience, including that decentralization is an active process that requires preparation, budget, strategy, and...
A great article delving into the power of fractal software to empower organizations in post-capitalist worlds and imagining how Bonfire can benefit from adopting the fractal knowledge model itself.
Free and Open Source Content Circle is hosting an event next week and I'd like to invite you!
Exploring Self Governance in the Fediverse: A discussion about decision making among a federated ensemble
--> May 29th 15:00 - 16:30 UTC
We're a circle within @SociocracyForAll , so I'll be interested to find out how sociocracy can support you. There will also be time to chat about common governance models and tensions that arise.
For #FEP (Fediverse Enhancement Proposals) we think of specifying behavior as human-readable, tech-independent #Gherkin scripts. That can be a good approach. Same org has the #FediverseIdea repo.
Hi! Here is our introductory post! We are a small team working on open source tools to make sociocracy easier for others to adopt.
We started this project because we were interested in using sociocracy for our worker co-op but ran into hurdles figuring out how to manage our structure and meetings. So we thought "let's build what we need to make it easy for others too!"
I'm searching for people interested in creation of remote, horizontal game dev worker cooperative
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/20011741...
Cynosuralism (Sociocratic Confederalism) (lemmy.world)
Cynosuralism is one of my own interpretations of libertarian political philosophy. I had originally named it as “Sociocratic Confederalism” as it is heavily inspired by Democratic Confederalism, Communalism, Libertarian Municipalism, and Social Ecology, all of which are interconnected amongst themselves....
[PDF] Decentralization and Centralization in Sociocratic Organizations—Dynamics,Combinations, and Hybrid Solutions | Journal of Nonprofit Innovation (scholarsarchive.byu.edu)
Overview: The article discusses the interplay between decentralized and centralized aspects of governance in the context of decentralized self- governance and shares learnings from Sociocracy For All’s (SoFA) experience, including that decentralization is an active process that requires preparation, budget, strategy, and...