Beyond hierarchy: Sociocracy, responsive organisations and creative authority
Response by Francois Knuchel to Tom Nixon and Charles Davies’s interesting blog Beyond hierarchy & holacracy: Truly responsive organisations love authority, explaining Sociocracy’s approach to creative authority and empowering people to get on and do stuff.
A Deeper Democracy For Scotland?
What could a real participatory democracy for Scotland look like?
The Common Weal has identified six transitions required to move towards its vision for Scotland. If I were asked which one of them to start with, I would begin with the last one – Democracy and Governance. The first five are about policy, but the sixth is about process, and most importantly it is about getting the whole Scottish population behind a vision. This is the participatory democracy it seeks. If there are lessons to be learned from the separatist movement of Quebec in Canada, for instance, it is that a democratic process must underpin independence…
Sociocracy – A shift toward the mainstream?
Leaders, business schools, politicians, communities and organisations around the country seem to agree that after the 2008 crash the societal system as we know it no longer works, and our way of living and running our organisations is not sustainable. All seem to be grappling to find new ways of doing things, yet in the vacuum everything seems to revert to the status quo. Of course, as Einstein said, you don’t solve problems with the same ideas that created them, so our current leaders may not the best people to ask for solutions and ideas for the future.