Reference Material

Background Reference Material on new Ways of Working and Organising (Future of Work)

This is not intented to be comprehensive, simply intended to point people to some further background material they might want to consider looking to further.

Areas:

Open Space Technology

Sociocracy

Lean

Manifestos

Miscellaneous

Open Space Technology

• Information website with lots of resources and links:  http://openspaceworld.org/wp2/

• Case studies / examples:  http://openspaceworld.org/wp2/explore/open-space-examples/

• Stories and Papers:  http://openspaceworld.org/wp2/explore/stories-papers/

• Selection of videos:  https://rationalmadness.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/100-evocative-open-space-videos/

• More videos (youtube):   https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=open+space+technology

• 12,000+ photos:  https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=openspacetech&content_type=1&media=all&adv=1&sort=interestingness-desc

• Facilitator resources:  http://openspaceworld.org/wp2/explore/facilitator-resources/

• Open Space world map:  http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/

• Open Space groups in Facebook and LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=81286   and   https://www.facebook.com/groups/7189220743/

• Moreover you will find a number of useful links at the end of Martin’s short article What is Open Space

Books by Harrison Owen:

Wave Rider, Leadership for High Performance in a Self-organising World:   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wave-Rider-Leadership-Performance-Self-Organizing/dp/1442966742/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1446930143&sr=8-12&keywords=harrison+owen

Open Space Technology, A User’s Guide: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Open-Space-Technology-Users-Guide/dp/1442966424/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446930143&sr=8-1&keywords=harrison+owen

Video clips:

Introduction to Open Space  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtcAWA997HI

Methods of Facilitation: Open Space Technology (Spanish) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UoG24LdU5Q

Open Space Technology; The Power of Sefl-organisation (German) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD3S0wlbek0

Harrison Owen Ted Talk: Dancing with Shiva:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APD7oQ3xrSA

Sociocracy

Thanks to Jan Höglund of Sweden for compiling this comprehensive list and for making it available and publicly updatable as a wiki at sociokrati.se.  This list below is copied from there, but is not updated regularly.  If you want to see the latest updated version of the list, please go to  sociokrati.se

Books

• We the People — John Buck & Sharon Villines
• Sociocracy: The organization of decision-making — Gerard Endenburg (book review)
• Sociocracy: As social design — Gerard Endenburg
• Holacracy — Brian Robertson (book review )
• Sociokrati: En metod för självstyre (e-bok) — Jan Höglund & John Schinnerer

Course Materials

• Discover Sociocracy: Handouts (pdf) Flipcharts (pdf) — Sociokrati-workshop arrangerad av Stoos Stockholm
• Dynamic Governance Summary (pdf) — John Buck
• Sociocracy 101: Speaker Notes (pdf) — Sociocracy in Action
• Learning & Support Packages — CircleForward
• Introduction to Sociocracy 3.0 (pdf) — Bernhard Bockelbrink & James Priest
• Sociocracy mind maps — Rakesh "Rootsman Rak"

Websites

• The Sociocracy Group
• The Sociocracy Consulting Group: Dynamic Governance — Equivalence, Effectiveness, Transparency
• Sociocracy.info: Elegant Organization
• Sociocracy UK: Growing Sociocracy Together (network )
• SocioNet: A not-for-profit that promotes the ongoing use of sociocracy
• Governance Alive: Decisions that work. Systems that self-optimize
• Circle Forward: It's what we've been looking for
• A Deeper Democracy: Making Freedom and Equality a Reality
• sociocracy.us: A web site created by Joe Kneeland
• sociocracyinaction.ca: Sociocracy in Action — Developing spaces where good ideas thrive
• Sociocracy — Blog posts about sociocracy by Jan Höglund (in English and Swedish)
• Agile Organizations: The Sociocracy Remix Kit — Bernhard Bockelbrink
• Sociocracy 3.0: A web site created by Bernhard Bockelbrink & James Priest
• sociocracy | enhanced reality — Bernhard Bockelbrink's blog
• Sociocracy — unaVision - ThinkCamp
• Sociocratisch Centrum Nederland
• Soziokratie Zentrum Österreich
• Soziokratisches Zentrum Deutschland
• Soziokratie: Gemeinsam erfolgreich sein — Christian Rüther
• Sociogest: Division du Group Sociocracy
• sociocratie: Des sociétés pour tous et avec tous...
• Sociocratie-Populaire-Française — Un Jour nouveau pour un Nouveau Monde
• Centre Français de Sociocratie
• sociocracia.net: Formación, Consultoría, Practicas, Implantación en organización
• Sociocracia Portugal — Grupo Sociocracia Portugal
• sociokrati.se: En samlingsplats för information om sociokrati sammanställd av Jan Höglund
• Sociocracy for Ängsbacka: En webbplats för utveckling av sociokrati på Ängsbacka Kursgård (på engelska)

Articles

• Sociocracy: Democracy as it might be — Kees Boeke (First published May 1945)
• Sociocracy: The Creative Forces of Self-Organization (pdf) — John Buck & Gerard Endenburg
• Sociocracy (Dynamic Governance) for Not-For-Profit Organizations — A supplement to the Creative Forces of Self Organization
• Meet Scrum's Big Brother, Dynamic Governance: Effectively Delivering Large Programs — Dan LeFebvre & John Buck
• Sociocracy: the next step forward — Interview with John Buck by Shammi Nanda
• The Basics of Sociocracy — Martin Grimshaw
• The Power to Object: Converting resistance to innovation with Sociocracy | Spark the Change — François Knuchel
• Report 1: What I learned about Sociocracy for intentional communities at GEN Conference — Diane Leafe Christian
• Report 2: What I learned about Sociocracy for intentional communities in Findhorn — Diane Leafe Christian
• Report 3: What else I learned about Sociocracy for intentional communities in Findhorn — Diane Leafe Christian
• Sociocracy: An Organizational Structure for Distributed Leadership — Sarah Lozanova
• Sociocracy: A New System for Better Decisions — Sarah Lozanova
• What Can a School Teach Us about Organizational Agility? — Sarah Lozanova
• How This Residential Care Home Bumped Employee Engagement Into Overdrive — Sarah Lozanova
• Use Sociocracy to Scale Agile Organizationally — Derwin Harris
• Sociocracy for Agile Software Development — Derwin Harris
• Can a Company Be Run as a Democracy? — Jaclyne Badal, Wall Street Journal
• Sociocracy: A Permaculture Approach to Community Evolution — Melanie Rios
• Sociocracy — Asheville Movement Collective (AMC) Dynamic Self-Organizing Governance System
• “Sociocracy” or “Consent vs. consensus” — Robin Gosse
• Governance and Decision-Making Tools — Compare Consensus vs. Holacracy vs. Sociocracy
• Anatomy of Agile Enterprise: The Future of Governance is Circular — Janne J. Korhonen
• Smarter working 2014: Outlandish — Abigale Murphy
• Using Sociocracy for Decision Making and Learning in Agile — Ben Linders interviews Pieter van der Meché
• Connect Agile Teams to Organizational Hierarchy: A Sociocratic Solution — Pieter van der Meché & Jutta Eckstein
• Decision Making Making Systems Matter — Pieter van der Meché, Jens Coldewey, Hendrik Esser & Anders Ivarsson (contributor)
• The Big Misconceptions Holding Holacracy Back — Georges Romme
• Misconceptions about Sociocracy — Sharon Villines
• Holacracy vs. Sociocracy — Jan Höglund
• Sociocracy vs. Holacracy vs. Sociocracy 3.0 — Jan Höglund
• The phenomenology of sociocracy — Jan Höglund on "the way of seeing" in sociocracy
• Are Holacracy and sociocracy Teal? — Jan Höglund
• Is sociocracy agile? — Jan Höglund
• La Sociocratie pour les nuls — Eric Delavallée
• Die ideale Welt — Gerhard Waldherr, brand eins Wirtschaftsmagazin
• Soziokratie: Ein Organisationsmodell, Grundlagen, Theorie und Praxis — Christian Rüther, MBA-Masterarbeit
• Vergleich Soziokratie-Holakratie — Subjektiver Vergleich von Christian Rüther (english version )
• Permakultur för organisationer — Anna Maris, "Sociokrati är som permakultur, fast för människor."
• #skolvåren: Att organisera oss rätt — Gästblogg av Jan Höglund på #skolvåren
• Skogsträdgården på Holma — Esbjörn Wandt, "Det finns intressanta paralleller mellan hur sociokrati och en skogsträdgård fungerar."
• Att använda sociokrati för att transformera en organisation som gått vilse — Sofie Malm
• Växa & gro, Kapitel 2: Demokratiutveckling — Julia Linder & Sara Nelson, Ett Grönare Lund, "För vårt projekt är det intressant att sociokratin ger verktyg för ett delat ledarskap…"
• Sociokratiskt beslutsfattande (pdf) — Avonova Ledarsupport AB
• Sociokrati — Glokala Folkhögskolan, "Några sociokratiska guldkorn"

Films

• Introduction to Sociocracy — Trailer (3 min)
• Intro to Sociocracy — Valhalla Movement (3 min)
• Dynamic Governance for Businesses (5 min)
• Beyond Democracy: Videos related to sociocracy/dynamic governance
• Sociocracy/Dynamic Governance in the Workplace — Gregg Kendrick combines Sociocracy with Nonviolent Communication (25 min)
• Dynamic Governance — John Buck explains sociocracy to Jim Rough (29 min)
• Dynamic Governance — Jerry Koch-Gonzalez (24 min)
• Sociocracy: The Operating System Of The New Economy — Jerry Koch-Gonzalez (4 min)
• Sociocracy 3.0: A brief introduction — Bernhard Bockelbrink & James Priest (32 min)
• Crisp and Ugilic: Two Self-Organizing Companies Exploring Sociocracy (44 min)
• Decision-making in communities + intro to Sociocracy 1 (filmed at Ängsbacka Kursgård ) — Diana Leafe Christian (29 min)
• Decision-making in communities + intro to Sociocracy 2 (filmed at Ängsbacka Kursgård ) — Diana Leafe Christian (34 min)
• Decision-making in communities + intro to Sociocracy 3 (filmed at Ängsbacka Kursgård ) — Diana Leafe Christian (15 min)
• Videos on Sociocracy by People Using It
• Sociocracy Celebration Song
• Sociocracy Videos 1--8 — Nathaniel Whitestone
• Sociocracy Videos 1--13 — James Priest
• Sociocracy at Adventures with Agile — James Priest
• How to use Sociocracy to Improve Collaboration and Expand Agile Practices Webinar — Derwyn Harris, Jama Software (60 min)
• Sociocracy vs Democracy 1 — Frands Frydendal (32 min)
• Sociocracy vs Democracy 2 — Frands Frydendal (26 min)
• Getting Things Done Together: Self-Organisation Beyond Hierarchy (Sociocracy is mentioned at 8:38 min)
• Gouvernance sociocratique — Gilles Charet (18 min)
• La sociocratie - Dialogue d'égal à égal : RTBF Vidéo (4 min)
• La sociocratie à Nouvelle Donne
• Le pouvoir de l'intelligence collective (54 min)
• Agila Sverige 2014: Skala Agile genom Sociocracy — Michael Göthe
• Introduktion till sociokratins bakgrund och metodik — Sofie Malm (60 min)
• Sociokrati - metoder för demokratisk organisering — Sofie Malm (60 min)
• Sociocracy at Green Earth — Mattias Fyrörn m.fl. (90 min)

Sociocratic Organizations

• Soziokratische Organisationen — Christian Rüther, MBA-Masterarbeit 2010
• Endenburg Electrotechniek , Nederländerna (använder inte längre dubbla länkar)
• Fabrique Public and Industrial Design , Nederländerna
• West-Brabant Homecare , Nederländerna
• Roombeck Schools, Nederländerna
• Creative Urethanes , Winchester, USA
• Rainbow Community School , USA
• High Mowing School , USA
• Austin Waldorf School , USA
• Living Well Center , USA
• Lost Valley Educational Center , USA
• YWCA of Asheville , USA
• Asheville-Buncombe Food Policy Council , USA
• Handmade in America , USA
• Agile Boston , USA
• Outlandish , UK
• Unbossed Agile Consultants , Denmark
• Crisp , Sweden
• Citizen Hive , Sverige
• Ängsbacka Kursgård , Sverige
• Holma Folkhögskola , Sverige
• Initiativ Samutveckling , Sverige

Twitter

• @sociokrati twittrar om sociokrati
• @SociocracyUK promotes sociocracy in the UK
• @sociocratie is the twitter account of The Sociocracy Group in the Netherlands
• @SociocracyGroup is the twitter account of The Sociocracy Consulting Group in the US
• @sociokrati30 develops and evolves Sociocracy 3.0

Facebook

• Friends of Sociocracy UK
• The Sociocracy Group España
• Sociocracy 3.0 International Community of Practice

Linkedin

• Sociocracy
• Sociocracy 3.0

Yahoo

• Yahoo Sociocracy Group — Moderated by Sharon Villines, co-author of We the People

Radio

• blogtalkradio — Wayne Hurlbert interviews John Buck about sociocracy (60 min)
• Sociocracy - Late Night Live — Presented by Phillip Adams, ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Other

• Method for Structuring and Controlling an Organization — Holacracy US Patent Application

Lean

The best souce of background material can be found in Planet Lean, a subscriber pulication

• Planet Lean Home page: planet-lean.com
• What is Lean?
• Lean Stories
• Case Studies
• Profiles
• Interviews
• Opinion pieces

• Video

• Lean Global Network

Manifestos

Coming soon

Agile Manifesto

manifesto copied + source link

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Responsive Manifesto

manifesto copied + source link

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Sociocracy does not have a manifesto, but has 4 minimal principles for an organisation to be considered sociocratic.  The 4 principles are:

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Open Space Technology has 5 principles and 1 law but beyond that no manifesto.  The 5 principles and one law are:

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Lean purposefully does not have a manifesto as it sees itself as a constantly evolving movement which a manifesto could potentially stagnate.  Nevertheless there are guiding principles:

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Beyond Budgeting has 12 principles:

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Teal has 3 basic features

- self-organising

- wholeness

- evolutionary purpose

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Miscellaneous

• A lot of the reinventing work movement was inspired by Frederick Laloux's 2014 book Reinventing Organisations

• Enlivening Edge is a online publication reporting on a multitude of case studies, stories and methodologies around teal and generally new economomy approaches, largely inspired by Reinventing Organisations

• The project is funded by Future Considerations

• There are a number of new age consultancies which have emerged looking at instigating new working practices in teams in larger corporations.  They grew out of a consultancy called Undercurrent, and while unique all have similar tone to what they do (which is radically diffeent from traditional managemet consultancies):
• The Ready
• August
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• Post-Shift & Base-Shift
• Corporate Rebels

Please note that many of these consultancies have an open book transparency policy which they take to heart in that all (except client confidential stuff) of their material, internal documents and techniques are openly available for anyone to view through their website.