“The sounds of self-governance clashing” - Interview with Sociocracy Expert John Schinnerer, The Sociocracy Consulting Group, by Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com
http://www.planetshifter.com/node/2399
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The nonprofit permaculture organizations I know of use a "default culture" (board-centric, top-down, voting-based) governance system of some type. Most design teams I've seen use some combination of "default behavior" and bits and pieces of other systems such as consensus decision making, various forms of preference voting, and plain majority voting. Businesses I have enough information on appear to use one of a collection of "default culture" business management/governance systems, somewhere on a spectrum from owner/leader/founder autocratic to voting-based cooperative. The sociocratic approach is not on the spectrum as far as I know, and, I'd love to hear from organizations who are using it or think they are using it.
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