Prioritizing the vibe, the social fabric, connection, belonging, and purpose, is crucial since trust and respect are essential for a healthy working culture. Good work happens when relationships are prioritized. Iterating organizational design regularly based on feedback and learning from the previous iteration can lead to a self-correcting evolutionary pathway, providing incredible resilience and flexibility.
In this episode we speak with Richard Bartlett, co-founder of the tech cooperative Loomio, and The Hum, management consultancy for organizations without managers. In the conversation, we cover his history and experience with patterns of decentralized organizing picked up from the punk scene and Occupy Wellington in the early 2010s, what he learned from those patterns, and how he co-created new organizational structures that put them into play with his co-founders and fellow workers. This episode will be particularly interesting for listeners who want practical advice on how to organize in DAOs, cooperatives, and other organizational forms that seek to work in non-hierarchical ways, but still get meaningful work done.
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