Collective Power: Patterns for a Self-Organized Future

People kind teams, organizations, actions, international locations. What are the deeper patterns at work that decide how these entities work?

This e book reveals the these underlying buildings of alignment and autonomy, centralization and decentralization, power-over and power-with in groups, organizations and past.

Primarily based on cultural evolution and Ostrom’s work of the profitable administration of the commons in addition to Beer’s Viable Programs Mannequin, this e book opens our eyes to an invisible world: the world of governance. Governance guidelines who decides, how we resolve, and who decides who decides what and the way. Governance is the important thing to our collective energy and company – with out governance to steadiness the powers, there may be dysfunction, chaos, groupthink, or tyranny.

The e book focuses on power-with governance and self-organization based mostly on selection. Energy-with governance is feasible when each actor fills their energy responsibly, with an integration of particular person, collective and planetary wants.

All ranges have their particular emergent methods: groups want matter administration and decision-making, abilities round pacing and agreements to maneuver ahead collectively and successfully. Organizations are efficient once they let staff resolve autonomously whereas fostering alignment and cohesion on technique, values, budgeting, and knowledge movement. New types of power-with authorities want to think about financial components, identities, training, authorized system and planetary boundaries.