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Sociocracy 3.0

What it is.

Sociocracy is a system of patterns roles and circles.

In sociocracy 3.0 there are about 70 differnt patterns in use and more are discovered and constructed over time. This patterns are ways to conduct meetings, formalize comunication so that it flow naturally and maximize both beauty and effectivnes in decision creation/forming and in manging the organisations tree of already made decisions. In truth an organisation id an body of decisions that have sedimented to the organisations documents and legal structure and this tree is alive and are constantly changing after the organisations changing needs and aims.

Traditionally organisations have been run with an top down approach wher power is invested in a few people trough ownership or hiring or voting. sociocrasy is totally different and work decentraliced. It construct roles and circles dynamically after it's need trough initiative of the people in the organisation. People participate in roles in circles after intrest and every circle has authority over its domain. Different circles have a variety of ways to interact and share trough representants and information flow. one principle is that anyone that will be effected by a decision shall know about that the decision will be taken and where in beforhand so that they can engage if they feel a need. this engagment can be trough participation in the circle the decision ar gonna be made or trough providing a viewpoint or idea or concern in beforhand trough a media like a forum or an issue tracker or why not like we plan trough git.

the decisions that are been made shall also be shared with all that they may concern. This is an amount of information and I guess that we will solve this trough some kind of federation like rss or categorized bloggs or both.

sociocracy 3.0 came with a new revolutionizing concept, The DRIVER. The driver is a separation between what drives the need for making a decision and the nsolution to SATISFY that DRIVER. We often get invested in a solution, it might be because We our self got the idea or there is something underlying in it that atract us to it. An solution to a driver may not always satisfy the driver thou. One might think a solution will work to acive that what it was constructed for but often an solution are not the best or even good. because of this and the importance for an organisation to not end up with a stale and stiff decision tree full of porly workin solutions to mproblems that might already walked on and that have changed because of changing environment or even initial missjudgment of what the actual driver might have been it is importent that decisions constantly get reviewed and evaluated for how good they satisfy their driver. As well as the drivers are reviewed for their actuality. This reviews are done regularly and in a timed manner against messurment criteria setup at the time of the decision. Also they are done constantly by the organisations members that are the actual living soul of the organisation and that are naturally driven to look after the organisations aims and wellbeing.

Because this agility and natural dynamicity in the decision tree decisions does not need to be monolitic or be done to serve forever. they can be amended or reconstructed at a later point. This have bgiven rise to a saying.. ## Good enough for now and safe enough to try.

This is a thing of beauty.

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is a big part of this. Sociocracy is a desition creation and management system that by it's very structure leaves the organisation tension free. Anyone can at any time make an objection against an decition or propose an subject to be processed at next boardmeeting or in a circle. When the subject is processed and a solution get form it is brought for aproval on the next called membermeeting. All processes are open for the members.