[Community] voting and collective leadership

[Drummond Reed]

Eugene and Martien,

Great posts. I strongly endorse the approaches you describe on them as
effectively what have been trying to capture with Identity Commons. I
particularly like Eugene's closing paragraph:

"I believe that when you have great collaborative process, voting is a
rubber stamping process, even when the topic is controversial. In other
words, the actual decision-making process starts well before any vote
happens. Healthy deliberation results in SharedUnderstanding, which in turn
helps to surface clear courses of action that navigate through the obstacles
of contradictory ideologies. When there is pressure for movement (another
pattern of high-performance collaboration), then people will rally around
those courses of action."

I think that's how Identity Commons has proceeded, and how I hope it
continues to proceed.

=Drummond 

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[mailto:community-bounces at idcommons.net] On Behalf Of Eugene Eric Kim
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 10:25 AM
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Subject: [Community] voting and collective leadership

Martien van Steenbergen has been on these lists for a while.  (Welcome,
Martin!)  He recently delurked and blogged some interesting thoughts on
voting in response to the last summary:

http://martien.aardrock.com/2007/04/06/holacracy-and-chaorganization-on-vote
s/

I posted my response at:

http://www.eekim.com/blog/2007/04/07/votingcollectiveleadership

=Eugene

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