Growing Agile and Resilient Organizations with Sociocracy 3.0
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Sociocracy 3.0 (launched 2015) is a free social technology with 74 patterns and seven guiding principles that thousands of people use; the developers report training a few thousand practitioners and 60% of course attendees are coaches. Practical tools include a four‑element driver pattern to state the why, a clarify and develop domains canvas to delegate authority, a simple record-and-review agreement template, and consent decision rules captured by the mantra good enough for now safe enough to try. Patterns succeed when applied incrementally; misapplied (a consent-based salary rollout) they fail.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Sociocracy 3.0 intro
- 5:41What is Sociocracy and S3?
- 13:38Seven principles of S3
- 19:12Practical S3 insights
- 21:41Clarifying the why
- 28:27Distributing power
- 35:22Effective decision-making
- 41:47Artful participation
- 44:15Q&A
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