What would a new political decision-making process have to look like to honour all layers of cultural values in a nonexclusive way? In his book “Developmental Politics,” Steve McIntosh develops a new political philosophy to help overcome the extreme hyper-polarization that plagues western democracies — the United States in particular…

Synergies between DAOs and FPEs — PART 1: The Emergence of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations PART 2: There Has To Be A Better Way … And Somebody Already Found It PART 3: Synergies between DAOs and FPEs As we explored in the previous articles, there are a lot of commonalities between DAOs and FPEs. …

There Has To Be A Better Way … And Somebody Already Found It — PART 1: The Emergence of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations PART 2: There Has To Be A Better Way … And Somebody Already Found It PART 3: Synergies between DAOs and FPEs Meanwhile, in another corner of the organizational innovation space, there exists a different lineage and tradition of self-organization that has…

How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations can benefit from operating as a For-Purpose Enterprise™ — PART 1: The Emergence of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations PART 2: There Has To Be A Better Way … And Somebody Already Found It PART 3: Synergies between DAOs and FPEs PART 1: The Emergence of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Imagine an organization in the cloud, radically decentralized, without bosses. Its rules are written in code, so-called “smart contracts” and…

How the Dutch Company “NRG Circles” is Transforming the Oil and Gas Industry — “You know, Grandpa,” said his nine-year-old granddaughter from the backseat to Robert Annaars while they were driving, “Electric cars are actually worse for the climate than cars with petrol, because of the production of batteries.” …

“3D Management — An Integral Theory for Organisations in the Vanguard of Evolution” by Marco A. Robledo — The first thing you need to know is that this is a passionate book, written by a passionate author. And, full disclosure, Marco Robledo is a good friend of mine. We met in integral circles and he is a really sweet guy, very knowledgeable, curious, and generous. …

The Whole That is Greater Than the Sum of its Puzzle Pieces — Like many of my peers, I am constantly wrestling with the question: What does it take to steer the world into a saner, more sustainable direction? This text is not a definitive answer to that question, simply a summary of what puzzle-pieces I have found so far that seem relevant…

The Fourth Piece of the Puzzle: Holacracy + Integrative Decision Making by Brian Robertson — Like many of my peers, I am constantly wrestling with the question: What does it take to steer the world into a saner, more sustainable direction? This text is not a definitive answer to that question, simply a summary of what puzzle-pieces I have found so far that seem relevant…

The Third Piece of the Puzzle: The SIMPOL Campaign by John Bunzl — Like many of my peers, I am constantly wrestling with the question: What does it take to steer the world into a saner, more sustainable direction? This text is not a definitive answer to that question, simply a summary of what puzzle-pieces I have found so far that seem relevant…