What is “sociocracy”?
Sociocracy is…
1) the way we run our company, and how we help other people to run theirs.
2) a proven way of designing, governing, managing & operating organizations, with several decades of well-studied usage in various organizations.
3) a cybernetically sound, fractal structure that ensures that every member of the organization has a powerful voice in decisions that affect them while also retaining the effectiveness of a top-down management hierarchy.
4) an effective way to combine and implement a whole list of practices that often are implemented partially, poorly, and one-by-one: open book management, self-managing teams, organizational learning disciplines, quality circles, consensus decision-making, organizational democracy, profit-sharing, employee ownership…
5) defined by four principles: the Principle of Consent, the Principle of Circles, the Principle of Double-Linking, and the Principle of Consensual Elections.
6) the 21st Century future for co-operative business, triple-bottom line business, and social enterprise.
We’ll be saying more on this blog, and you can also find more at sociocracy.info
Posted: March 7th, 2010 | Author: nate | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: definition, sociocracy | Comments Off