TheGivingConference: PublicNetworkingCenters/TheoryOfOrganization

Democracy of work concept. An orienter initially forms a group, not a team. It doesn’t become a team until it satisfies current condition. Those conditions are:

!. Differenetion of roles or functions 2. And, differentiantion of instances (If you are in my team and you have 14 peers, directly in my team, the differentiantion of instances is when you and others in the group become orientors and have our own group – then my group becomes a team)

Instances: My first instance is everyone who I orient directly is my group. People who are directly oriented by you are in your 1st instance but are in Ted’s 2nd instance. Therefore when my people have teams they will be in Ted’s 3rd instance. When you join, I become a group delegate which is the 1st level. When you’re group changes into a team, that means I have 10 people and an Admi of Support – I become a team and the team delegate.

Differentiation:

A person changes from a group delegate to a team delegate by forming their own group delegation and having one of the new group delegates – there people are starting to become orientors.

1. You have an admi and a support. 2. You have at least 10 people 3. Some of your people are orientors

It becomes a team and I become a team delegate.

A difference between looking at a group, which is a club (which is closed and looks inward focusing on itself) and a team which is focused on the outside (others).

Group Therapy is not inviting new people in. Not taking new people in, which is fine but this concept takes the group from inward looking to outward looking. A team is also called a council. It’s a council in this case of group delegates.

Next in our Theory of Organization:

1. Group delegate becomes an orienter of other Group Delegates. So you can orient people who are at your same level.

If I’m a group delegate and I become a team delegate – although

Instances are different than levels.

Your people are now building their own groups. What happens when one of them becomes a team delegate? Nothing changes in the morphology of the structure but they now have different titles.

Those group delegates go on to build their own teams. Now the 1st, 2nd, 3rd group delegate becomes a team delegate (10 participants). What happens is that I’m a team delegate that orients both team and group delegates. I’m still a team delegate until I orient 10 team delegates. When I orient 10 team delegates I become General Delegate. Now I’m an orientor of a council of team delegates. Now it looks like 10 teams of 10. Or 15 teams of 15. It’s not exact, nor does it build linearly like discribed. (100 participants)

Similarly when I orient 10 General Delgates I become a Coordinator (1000 participants).

<Men and women are treated with reconition that women are discriminated int eh world and doing most of the work – if the women is an orientor the number is 7) Because 7 women can do the work of 10 men. That point might go away if there is a balance between women and men participants.

Collums like that which holds up a building. There are many cases where I form a team and one of my people starts growig like crazy, out of step with the others. That is a collum. If you build a house on one collum rather than 4, 8, or 10 it won’t be very stable. Several things happen when you build a Collum – several things tend to happen. This is where an orienter puts all there energy because this is where things happen. So this is natural and makes sense.

Next thing that happens is that this person grows even faster, because the others are not getting the same amount of energy. Then the person who is the Collum tends to get resentful of their Orientor and gets resentful becaues they have more people then their Orientor.

The Niave way to solve the Collum is to rearrange people, but that never will work because this is not an artifical process…. The suggestion is that I need to start a parrell process, a new team. That means I might go to another city, another social project (Action Front), different country, meeting on a different day of the week… this relives pressure on those that are not growign. Gives them the freedom to stay where they are or to grow at their own pace. Once the parrell structure has created itself, hopefully I’ll have another Collum. When that happens, I can bring everybody back together again. A Collum can also be a country (ie: Liberia) and a war starts again, then I lose my collum or a city (where all of your energy is in one area). You could have a rooted project in a Collum (i,e: a latino project in your community even though others live there).

The theory of organization is on the Omidyar site. PDF document.

People tend to want to look inward, they want a club… not want to look outward and take responsibility for forming new groups with different meeting. The answer is that we want to humanize the earth, and if we all work together we won’t grow beyond a certain size. It’s also why we don’t let a group grow to 20 and then split it into 2 groups. Because the orientor of the 20 did the outreach and did the work. So, who would be the orientor of the group that slits away. It doesn’t make sense, it’s artificial.

Group Delegate - Team Delegate General Delegate Coordinator General Coordinator

Collaborator: Supporter: ??4th: Member has been a really high level of commitment (pay fees, attend weekly meetings) Adherant: (connected with us and doesn’t make this commiments) Looking at how to blend/blur the lines members and adherants

Open Space: Inviting partners and friends. Show up, bring friends, conviene spirit

You become a partner when you become an Orientor. How does it work?

 How does a practice of inviting friends and partners to function as an Un – “Common”  entity.

Peers are people who share the same orientor. Peers are in the same instance.

Ted: Orienter

	Julie: Group

No one can be paid for their role in the HM becasse by definition, we’re all volunteers. However, an action front can result in employed people or some other way to get people paid to do work that’s useful. This could be funded through a social venture bank or some other money-making venture in the community.

no membership fees until someone becomes an orientor - then the whole membership conversation happens and we can figure out if it's simply $100 or if it's give more to support others and less if you need to or any other way that feels comfortable to us at that time

fundraising for membership fees for Africa is another topic and can be handled seperately, maybe even simply merging it with other humanitarian sides of fundraising