[P2P-F] the rules of distributed leadership

Tue May 10 16:28:15 CEST 2011

Curtis and Michel:

Great observations and judgments on distributed leadership that aligns very
well with the Relationship Capital (RC) Interaction & Measurement process.

Thank you.

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From: p2p-foundation-bounces at lists.ourproject.org
[mailto:p2p-foundation-bounces at lists.ourproject.org] On Behalf Of Michel
Bauwens
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 1:47 AM
To: p2p-foundation
Cc: curtis at worldhouse.org
Subject: [P2P-F] the rules of distributed leadership

Dear Curtis,

I appreciate your summary below and would like to reprint it on the p2p blog
... would you like to expand and improve on it before?

Michel

Curtis Faith <curtis at worldhouse.org> May 09 01:39PM -0400 ^

The question of how to organize is really the core problem for a building a
world where collaboration is the norm.

Some thoughts and principles for one way of organizing from the bottom up:

Leadership is trust earned through vision, respect, and action; not implied
by position or granted from above. 

Leadership is not about making decisions or having authority it is about
ability to effectuate the collaboration of work on for a given domain.

Leadership is service.

Leadership is synthesis.

Leadership is mediation and mitigation.

Leadership is design.

Responsibility is shared and delegated at the full discretion of each
individual.

Anyone who has a given primary responsibility is the "leader" for that
domain. That individual can delegate to others and then the others are the
"leaders" for their sub-domains.

The customer for the domain's services are the ones who choose the leader.
For an organization as a whole, the customer is the leadership for each of
the domains, e.g. the leaders of sensing and intelligence, design,
manufacturing, distribution, and finance as well as representatives from the
product's customers would choose the overall organizational leader.

Each person chooses who they work for as their "leader" for any tasks for
which they wish to obtain responsibility. Responsibility requires mutual
approval by the one granting and the one accepting responsibility for a
given domain. For example, if you want to work in engineering on a
particular subsystem or module of a new device, then you must find someone
within engineering responsible for that module who is willing to share
responsibility with you by delegating a portion to you.

There should be a grievance process whereby it is possible to replace
leaders over a domain on initiation of either the customers for that domain,
or those who are responsible for sub-domains.

For domains for which we do not care to pay such close attention, or do not
have time to acquire the relevant expertise, we can delegate responsibility
for our decisions to someone we trust who becomes our representative for
these domains. These representatives, in turn, can choose to delegate
decisions to someone they trust carrying our vote with them.

Decisions should be unanimous and put to vote by anyone who commits to
learning enough about the issues to give the vote a fair hearing. If
unanimity cannot be reached then a course which receives 95% approval should
be sought, if not 95% then 90%, then 80%, and finally 2/3 supermajority as
the last resort. 

A lack of consensus means that someone's point of view is not being heard.
Vote representatives should work out any issues ahead of actual voting and
learn enough to arrive at the highest possible consensus decisions by making
sure everyone's real issues are addressed in any plans or decisions.

All leadership responsibility is subject to a quarterly vote of customers
and sub-domain leaders. 

Resource prioritization is handled through a point system. Each member
receives 1,000 points each month and allocates gross profits between 20% to
50% each for three areas: operational improvement expenses; building and
expansion expenses; and member bonus or benefits.

An entrepreneur's role in such an organization is to get the leaders of the
necessary groups to agree to allocate resources to the proposed project.

All records of decisions and expenditures are completely open for inspection
at any time by anyone.

Peace

Curtis

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