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DYNAMIC
GOVERNANCE
Dynamic
Governance, known as 'sociocracy' in Eurrope (and 'collaborative
governance in the UK) is an organisational system designed to achieve
organisational democracy but without the often very inefficient
processes normally associated with democracy or consensus. It is
an organsational decision-making and choice-creating process which
ensures that no stone is left unturned and no perspective left unviewed,
thus producing very rich considered collective decisions where every
voice has been heard equivalently. Sociocracy was first developed
in Holland and is now the standard approach of organisational governance
in many organisations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France,
Holland, UK, USA and Canada. It is dynamic as it enables organisations
to steer fluidly in ever changing organic world.
The
challenges are so complex that solutions cannot be found or implemented
by a few elite leaders at the top. What is required is full involvement,
collaboration and engagement of all involved in an organisaiton.
This requires a different type of decision-making, which is democratic
in the sense that all are involved, but not democratic in the sense
that it is not limited by poor bi-polar antagonistic (adversarial)
voting, which is fundamentally an exclusive thus very impoverished
form of collective thinking. Rather what we need is a collective
way of thinking which is inclusive and holistic and takes into account
the diversity of perspectives, a symbiosis, releasing the soul of
the collective.
Open
structured decision-making process: Holistic,
symbiotic, inclusive (diversity), equivalent and pluralistic decion-making,
based on complementarity and consent (not voting or consensus),
which focusses on common goals and common good. Please click here
for video introduction to sociocracy and more background information.
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