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Sociocracy

Boost Creativity

in Decision Making


Living happy together

Shop room

Properties: Shop window

Pleasantly decorated (small staircase at the

Back, leading to saloonbed with storage space below). Easy looking in from the outside. Street noises. Adjacent to living room.

Sunroom

Properties: Large window with

French windows and garden, facing South. Light dome in ceiling.

Adjacent to bathroom and living room.

Properties: Large room,

favourably situated, with grand piano. Must remain

available for house concerts.

Co-inhabitants practise their piano playing here.

View of the parking space. Adjacent to living room.

Music room

Entrance Hall

Common living room

Stora

ge

WC

Antique Room

Properties: Exquisite antique open

fireplace. No noise, near the balcony.

Low ceiling. Rather dark.

Large Room

Properties: Lots of privacy.

Lots of (storage) space. Very hot in summer.

Poor ventilation. Facing WC and bathroom.

Old Room

Properties: High stucco ceiling.

Much privacy. Pretty view.

No direct sunlight. Next to bathroom.

Attic

Properties: Pretty view.

Much privacy. Access to balcony. High ceiling with

beams. Chilly and damp in

winter time. Not much sunlight.

WC

1st FLOOR


Lineair decision making

Leading

Execution


Democratic decision making

Majority

Minority


Equivalence in decision making

Leading

Measuring Executing

Consent


Consent principle

No paramount reasoned objection:

• No consensus but no paramount

objections

• No veto but a reasoned objection


Consent governs


The decision making process

1. Picture forming: what is it about?

2. Opinion forming: what do you think of it?

3. Decision making: what do we decide upon?


The Challenge of Life Dynamic Process


Steering Dynamics The Circle Process

Leading

Measuring Execution


Actual organisation structure Linear

Dep. 1

Board

CEO

Dep. 2

Staff

Manager Manager

Dep. 3

Manager

Staff

Manager


Lineair decision making governs

Leading

Execution

Advantages?

Disadvantages?


Wrong culture or wrong structure?

Milgram Experiment


Wrong people or wrong structure?


Democratic decision making

Majority

Minority

Advantages?

Disadvantages?


Consent principle

Leading

Measuring Executing

Consent

Advantages?

Disadvantages?


Dilemma

Leading

Measuring Executing

Leading

Executing

Advantage: fast

Disadvantage: conformism

Advantage: creativity Disadvantage: slow


Solution to the dilemma

• Distinguishing policy from execution

• Making mistakes is a must

• Need for tolerance

Tolerance


Circle organisation

Dep. 1

Bestuur

Directie

Dep. 2

Staf

LG LG

Dep. 3

LG

Staff.

LG

Top circle

General circle

Dep.- circle

Dep.- cicle

Dep.- circle

Dep.- circle


4 Sociocratic ground rules

1. Consent principle

2. Circle

3. Double link

4. Sociocratic election


1 Consent

No paramount reasoned objection :

• No consensus but no paramount

objections

• No veto but a reasoned objection


Consent governs


2 Organizing in Circles

• Relative autonomous group

• Common aim

• Leading, executing and measuring

• Policy and execution

• Integral education


3 Double linking

Circle 1

Circle 2

rep. mgr.


4 Election for functions with consent

• Open procedure

• Change opinions without losing face

• Decision with consent

• No winners or losers


Roots

• Prof.dr.ing. Gerard Endenburg

• Kees Boeke

• Cybernetics


Sociocracy in practice Netherlands


Sociocratie in practice

http://www.ecovil.com/index.html


Lessons learned

• It takes an inner transformation:

from fight or flight towards learning

From I and THEY to I and WE


Lessons learned

• Implementation is an ongoing process of

develepment

• To assure quality connection to a center of

sociocratic expertise is needed


Getting started

• Leading by example: educate yourself

• School for Leaders

Leading yourself

Leading a group

Leading an organization

• Books


Getting started

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