[sudo-discuss] Holacracy!

Jeremy Entwistle jwentwistle at cryptolab.net
Fri Nov 1 14:12:58 PDT 2013 

Socialism or communism describes this economic philosophy--even if it's 
often misinterpreted. Workers cooperatives are typically described as 
socialist, although, I think of socialism as a the progression rather 
than a state of workers cooperatives. On the other hand, the equal 
representation concept/structure of communism, even if it is thought of 
as something else, is nothing but abolishing private property. In this 
instance, a workers cooperative does abolish private property, if you 
fully understand the meaning of it... in that private property doesn't 
require use or labor.

I certainly agree with these concepts, but I don't see the purpose of 
renaming them. Mainly because there's a lot of literature on it. As a 
society, we've been taught to fear these concepts to avoid learning 
about them. We should encourage people to know these "definitions"... 
rather than make new ones.

On 2013-11-01 18:57, Anthony Di Franco wrote:
> Along those lines, I suspect the holocracy term is meant at the level
> of guiding political / economic philosophy from which one then works
> to construct specific legal structures to implement the idea in
> specific contexts with various other names.
> On Nov 1, 2013 11:51 AM, "Danny Spitzberg" <stationaery at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> my friends/sources at theselc.org [1] say that, yes, a worker
>> cooperative by any other name (t-corp, wsde, zimzam, hoosegow) would
>> smell as sweet
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Jeremy Entwistle
>> <jwentwistle at cryptolab.net> wrote:
>> Maybe I don't understand the entire concept of a "holacracy", but
>> it sounds very similar to a workers cooperative. Or how Richard
>> Wolff tried to rename it too as WSDEs with the Democracy at Work
>> project. But it really sounds like workers cooperative to me.
>> 
>> Jeremy
>> 
>> On 2013-10-31 12:39, Eddan Katz wrote:
>> 
>> Those who have expressed interest in a co-operative model of
>> organizational development would be interested in Holacracy, which
>> Janelle Orsi of the Sustainable Economies Law Center, promotes in
>> her
>> lectures. From today's blog post about a new Holacracy 'app':
>> 
>> In a typical top-down management structure, the power to hire and
>> fire employees is generally in the hands of managers. With
>> Holacracy
>> at play, the game is entirely different: with the decentralization
>> of authority [1], the separation of people and role [2], and the
>> dynamic evolution of those roles [3], we end up with a situation
>> 
>> that looks more like free agents going about their work with no
>> central planning. There might not even be a single person who knows
>> about everything you do. This then begs the question: who can
>> decide
>> how and when to hire or fire?
>> 
>> Holacracy doesn’t answer that question; it simply gives you a
>> framework and processes for your company to figure it out. In other
>> words, if Holacracy is an “operating system” for organizations,
>> the “hire-and-fire” function is an “app” that needs to be
>> added separately.
>> 
>> The Holacracy newsletter forwarded below also includes a link to
>> the
>> Dec. 3 workshop ($125) they'll be hosting in San Francisco.
>> 
>> Happy Halloween Friend!
>> 
>> If you follow us on social [4] channels [5], you might already know
>> that HolacracyOne just released a new "Partnership App" [6], and
>> 
>> it's freely available.
>> 
>> What do we mean by "app"? It extends the metaphor of Holacracy as
>> an
>> “operating system” for organizations. I like this comparison
>> because it accurately reflects what Holacracy is, as well as what
>> it
>> isn't. On a computer, the operating system provides a basic
>> framework for “apps” to function harmoniously in the same
>> environment. Similarly, Holacracy provides a basic framework for
>> _how _to decide, but it doesn't tell you _what_ you should decide
>> 
>> for your business. In other words, it doesn’t answer typical
>> business questions such as “what’s our employee compensation
>> system?”, or “how to allocate resources?”.
>> 
>> There are many different ways of answering these questions and
>> Holacracy doesn’t choose one for you — that's the domain of
>> "apps". At HolacracyOne, we've adopted a new "app" to define how
>> our
>> partnership functions work, and although it is still experimental,
>> it's fleshed out enough to share it with you. Check it out in our
>> blog post [7]!
>> 
>> Olivier Compagne [8]
>> HolacracyOne
>> 
>> A “PARTNERSHIP APP” FOR HOLACRACY-POWERED COMPANIES
>> 
>> [9]
>> 
>> The question was: “How can we account for the difference between
>> partners deeply committed to the organization, and those for whom
>> the commitment is lesser and more temporary?”
>> 
>> Read Blog Post → [10]
>> 
>> PAST BLOG POSTS
>> 
>> [11]
>> 
>> INTEGRATE PERSPECTIVES
>> 
>> On many teams, critical perspectives are ignored or dismissed when
>> they’re not shared by the leader or by the majority.
>> 
>> Read → [12]
>> 
>> [13]
>> 
>> ORGANIZATION VS. TRIBE
>> 
>> “It is an inappropriate use of love and care to use love and care
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>> 
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>> 
>> TRAININGS ON THE WEST COAST
>> 
>> [15]
>> 
>> * Intro Workshop in San Francisco, CA [16] — Dec 3, 2013
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>> 
>> * Practitioner Training in Las Vegas, NV [18] — Feb 1-5, 2014
>> With the vibrant Downtown Project [19] nearby...
>> 
>> Oh, and do you know that Brian Robertson gives aIntro Webinar [20]
>> 
>> tomorrow Friday? Last minute registrations are welcome!
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>> [2] http://holacracy.org/blog/differentiating-role-and-soul [3]
>> [3] https://medium.com/about-holacracy/91dd71a76eb7 [4]
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> [1] http://theselc.org
> [2] http://holacracy.org/blog/the-power-of-governance
> [3] http://holacracy.org/blog/differentiating-role-and-soul
> [4] https://medium.com/about-holacracy/91dd71a76eb7
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