Shared leadership and governance options
EVOLUTIONARY GOVERNANCE: Part I: Principles
A new model of nonprofit leadership for uncertain times.
Vanessa LeBourdais
Resources for Workplace Democracy
Accesible and engaging resources from Sustainable Economies Law Center.
Sustainable Economies Law Center
Why We’re Taking on Holacracy and Changing the Way We Work
Six specific features of Holacracy and that appealed to their team and the way that they seek to work as an organization.
CompassPoint
The Sociocracy Consulting Group Blog
Explore The Sociocracy Consulting Group’s intriguing blog.
The Sociocracy Consulting Group
Doing More with More: Putting Shared Leadership into Practice
Discover what shared leadership means, what it takes to implement and the means of putting it into action.
Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ)
Structuring Leadership: Alternative Models for Distributing Power and Decision-Making in Nonprofit Organizations
Learn about different leadership structures and how they can offer organizations effective ways to operate and increase their impact.
Building Movement Project
The Agile C-Suite
Brian Johnson is the chief executive of a major consumer-goods company that has been remarkably successful over the past decade. Like his predecessors, Johnson runs a tight ship in all aspects of operations, boasting excellence in product and service quality and a finely tuned supply chain. The company capitalizes on economies of scale and enjoys the lowest costs in its industry.
Harvard Business Review
Participatory Organizations, Patterns, Processes & Tools – An Overview & Taxonomy
Explore the variety of practices (skills, knowledge, processes, etc.) important for sharing work and achievements within a participatory organization.
Christopher Allen
SWITCH PATHWAYS
We move through change each day – it is a constant in our lives. These are the building blocks of sustainability for living in this moment and throughout the long road ahead.
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There can be a deep sense of urgency for change that drives us to action before we have fully aligned our purpose and outcomes. This can lead to disruptions, unnecessary conflict and ultimately failure of our plans. Here are valuable guides for aligning intention and action to save energy, resources and time.
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To make change in our society, we need to understand the fundamentals of how decision making happens, in our teams, through our social identities, and in our systems of power.
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Work for diversity, equity and inclusion achieves lasting impact when we orient our energy towards structural change and integrate structural change tools into our programs and operations. This pathway provides support for analyzing structures and transforming them for justice.
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Breaking the status quo and opening up new possibilities for equity and freedom in our work requires innovative experiments. Teams must ensure that all members have the ability to act on the vision and goals they are co-creating.
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Our minds cannot move toward racial justice, equity or transformation if our bodies are not prepared for change. This pathway offers those preparations that we have found most beneficial to adult learning.
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