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Better for peers: governance is the new black
● Vincent van der Lubbe (47, dutch)
● Consultant - Making management easier
● Chair Sociocracy for All, a non-profit membership
organisation with the mission to make sociocracy accessible
1
Expectations & Experience
What would you like to know before we begin?
What do you know about sociocracy?
What would you like to have happen for this session?
What does sociocracy mean?
Socio - cracy
Companion/Peer - rule/govern
Better for peers: Governance is the new black
Who might know about this? “Rules for living
together”
For people living / collaborating together we have several thousand years of
experience in 

● Family life
● Local communities sharing resources
● Religious communities
And we are all coming from tribalism...
Let’s look at Sociocracy
Context(ualist approach)
It’s about conversations
between different actors/peers
about their concerns
in their specific environment/context
who try to create a desired future (together).
Excerpt “Sociocracy: Democracy as It Might Be”
We are so accustomed to majority rule as a necessary part of democracy that it is difficult to
imagine any democratic system working without it. It is true that it is better to count heads
than to break them, and democracy, even as it is today, has much to recommend it as
compared with former practices. But the party system has proved very far from providing the
ideal democracy of people’s dreams. Its weaknesses have become clear enough: endless
debates in Parliament, mass meetings in which the most primitive passions are aroused, the
overruling by the majority of all independent views, capricious and unreliable election results,
government action rendered inefficient by the minority’s persistent opposition. Strange
abuses also creep in. Not only can a party obtain votes by deplorably underhanded methods,
but, as we all know, a dictator can win an election with an “astonishing” majority by
intimidation.
Source: https://www.sociocracy.info/sociocracy-democracy-kees-boeke/
Excerpt “Sociocracy: Democracy as It Might Be”
The fact is that we have taken the present system for granted for so long that many people
do not realize that the party system and majority rule are not an essential part of democracy.
If we really wish to see the whole population united, like a big family, in which the members
care for each other’s welfare as much as for their own, we must set aside the quantitative
principle of the right of the greatest number and find another way of organizing ourselves.
This solution must be really democratic in the sense that it must enable each one of us to
share in organizing the community. But this kind of democracy will not depend on power, not
even the power of the majority. It will have to be a real community-democracy, an
organization of the community by the community itself.
For this concept I shall use the word “sociocracy.” Such a concept would be of little value if it
had never been tried out in practice. But its validity has been successfully demonstrated over
the years.
Source: https://www.sociocracy.info/sociocracy-democracy-kees-boeke/
The challenge
“The real problem of humanity is the following:
We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions
and godlike technology.”
E.O. Wilson
Sociocracy’s two big strands before Endenburg
1. Social ideals: create a better world
2. Science: based on “positivism”, world of passive
causality and “facts” (rest not relevant)
Forms of this - unanimity/consensus (1) - practiced in:
● religious community (Quaker practice)
● schools (Boeke’s Werkplaats)
Your typical form of governance
● Autocratic - very efficient/fast, “stupid ruler”, power corrupts
● Democratic (majority rule) - inefficient, create lot of losers, divisive, not taking
care of minority enough, majority justifies own mediocre (what they have in
common = “populism”)?
● Consensus - everybody agree, no loser, takes long time, not always possible,
group think - people conform,
● Meritocratic - well prepared people, work hard = good rewards, does not exist
in real world (work is not enough, PR, where you come from), we are all
specialists (short sighted by definition), lot of losers, used to justify status quo
● 
?
● Random
● Let it happen - Tao is pushing
Gerard Endenburg (1933)
● Went to school in
Boeke’s Werkplaats
● Parents buy company
to show that you can
manage a business
differently
● Practices sociocracy
in his parents’ company
● Brings cybernetics to
Sociocracy:
active causality
Nodes in a network: how do you manage them?
1. CONSENT
Sociocracy is not just a decision making process...
Consent = having no objection
Objection
“No way”
Range of Tolerance
“I can live with it”
Personal Preference
“My choice”
Let’s look at Sociocracy
Sociocracy
1. Decisions by consent
- no overburdening/ignoring
2. Circle structure, interconnected Circles
- describe the domain (boundaries) with a shared interest/aim
3. Open elections (by consent)
- nomination of people in the domain / with reasons
4. Double link between circles
- role of leader (eïŹ€ectiveness) and delegate (equivalence)
Objections and tensions
Where do they come from?
What would we like to have happen?
And when that happens, then what happens?
Holacracy
Criteria for proposals
● Good enough for now
● Safe enough to try
● Not losing an opportunity to learn
2. CIRCLES/ROLES WITH DOMAIN AND AIM
3. OPEN ELECTIONS (BY CONSENT)
Selection process T1
Name Facilitator Secretary
Mark - c Ruth | - Pat Evans | Mark
Pat Pingel - c Ruth | - Karen | Mark
Karen - c Ruth | - Mark | -
Pat Evans - c Ruth | - Mark | -
Ruth - c Pat P | - Mark | -
Facilitator: facilitates small group meetings
Secretary: note-taking during small group exercises
Term: one weekend (might be extended)
QualiïŹcations Facilitator
- manage the agenda
- good listener
- ability to handle disagreements
- knows when to do a round
- ability to summarize; bring ideas
together
QualiïŹcations Secretary
- Good listener
- able to summarize ideas
- accurate recording of information
- organized
- can type
4. DOUBLE LINKING
Three key values
1. Equivalence
2. Effectiveness
3. Transparency
Different strands of sociocracy
● Sociocratic Circle Method (minimum structure to make it work in org)
● S3: added some other “patterns”
● Holacracy: specified criteria for objections, formalized a lot of rules, separated
operations and governance meetings clearly
“Sociocracy: Democracy
as It Might Be” (1945)
Resources - Books
Resources - Books
Website resources
https://www.sociocracyforall.org/
https://sociocracy30.org/
https://www.sociocracy.info/
Questions / Feedback
Happy to stay in contact and collaborate.
Send me an email and add me on:
www.linkedin.com/in/vincentvanderlubbe
Vincent van der Lubbe
Hansei Consulting
vincentvanderlubbe.com
+34 696 27 88 72 | me@vincentvanderlubbe.com
39@vincentvdlubbe

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Better for peers governance is the new black

  • 1. Better for peers: governance is the new black ● Vincent van der Lubbe (47, dutch) ● Consultant - Making management easier ● Chair Sociocracy for All, a non-profit membership organisation with the mission to make sociocracy accessible 1
  • 2. Expectations & Experience What would you like to know before we begin? What do you know about sociocracy? What would you like to have happen for this session?
  • 3. What does sociocracy mean? Socio - cracy Companion/Peer - rule/govern
  • 4. Better for peers: Governance is the new black
  • 5. Who might know about this? “Rules for living together” For people living / collaborating together we have several thousand years of experience in 
 ● Family life ● Local communities sharing resources ● Religious communities And we are all coming from tribalism...
  • 6.
  • 7.
  • 8. Let’s look at Sociocracy
  • 9. Context(ualist approach) It’s about conversations between different actors/peers about their concerns in their specific environment/context who try to create a desired future (together).
  • 10. Excerpt “Sociocracy: Democracy as It Might Be” We are so accustomed to majority rule as a necessary part of democracy that it is difficult to imagine any democratic system working without it. It is true that it is better to count heads than to break them, and democracy, even as it is today, has much to recommend it as compared with former practices. But the party system has proved very far from providing the ideal democracy of people’s dreams. Its weaknesses have become clear enough: endless debates in Parliament, mass meetings in which the most primitive passions are aroused, the overruling by the majority of all independent views, capricious and unreliable election results, government action rendered inefficient by the minority’s persistent opposition. Strange abuses also creep in. Not only can a party obtain votes by deplorably underhanded methods, but, as we all know, a dictator can win an election with an “astonishing” majority by intimidation. Source: https://www.sociocracy.info/sociocracy-democracy-kees-boeke/
  • 11. Excerpt “Sociocracy: Democracy as It Might Be” The fact is that we have taken the present system for granted for so long that many people do not realize that the party system and majority rule are not an essential part of democracy. If we really wish to see the whole population united, like a big family, in which the members care for each other’s welfare as much as for their own, we must set aside the quantitative principle of the right of the greatest number and find another way of organizing ourselves. This solution must be really democratic in the sense that it must enable each one of us to share in organizing the community. But this kind of democracy will not depend on power, not even the power of the majority. It will have to be a real community-democracy, an organization of the community by the community itself. For this concept I shall use the word “sociocracy.” Such a concept would be of little value if it had never been tried out in practice. But its validity has been successfully demonstrated over the years. Source: https://www.sociocracy.info/sociocracy-democracy-kees-boeke/
  • 12. The challenge “The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.” E.O. Wilson
  • 13. Sociocracy’s two big strands before Endenburg 1. Social ideals: create a better world 2. Science: based on “positivism”, world of passive causality and “facts” (rest not relevant) Forms of this - unanimity/consensus (1) - practiced in: ● religious community (Quaker practice) ● schools (Boeke’s Werkplaats)
  • 14. Your typical form of governance ● Autocratic - very efficient/fast, “stupid ruler”, power corrupts ● Democratic (majority rule) - inefficient, create lot of losers, divisive, not taking care of minority enough, majority justifies own mediocre (what they have in common = “populism”)? ● Consensus - everybody agree, no loser, takes long time, not always possible, group think - people conform, ● Meritocratic - well prepared people, work hard = good rewards, does not exist in real world (work is not enough, PR, where you come from), we are all specialists (short sighted by definition), lot of losers, used to justify status quo ● 
? ● Random ● Let it happen - Tao is pushing
  • 15. Gerard Endenburg (1933) ● Went to school in Boeke’s Werkplaats ● Parents buy company to show that you can manage a business differently ● Practices sociocracy in his parents’ company ● Brings cybernetics to Sociocracy: active causality
  • 16. Nodes in a network: how do you manage them?
  • 18. Sociocracy is not just a decision making process... Consent = having no objection Objection “No way” Range of Tolerance “I can live with it” Personal Preference “My choice”
  • 19.
  • 20. Let’s look at Sociocracy
  • 21. Sociocracy 1. Decisions by consent - no overburdening/ignoring 2. Circle structure, interconnected Circles - describe the domain (boundaries) with a shared interest/aim 3. Open elections (by consent) - nomination of people in the domain / with reasons 4. Double link between circles - role of leader (eïŹ€ectiveness) and delegate (equivalence)
  • 22. Objections and tensions Where do they come from? What would we like to have happen? And when that happens, then what happens?
  • 23.
  • 24.
  • 26. Criteria for proposals ● Good enough for now ● Safe enough to try ● Not losing an opportunity to learn
  • 27. 2. CIRCLES/ROLES WITH DOMAIN AND AIM
  • 28.
  • 29. 3. OPEN ELECTIONS (BY CONSENT)
  • 30. Selection process T1 Name Facilitator Secretary Mark - c Ruth | - Pat Evans | Mark Pat Pingel - c Ruth | - Karen | Mark Karen - c Ruth | - Mark | - Pat Evans - c Ruth | - Mark | - Ruth - c Pat P | - Mark | - Facilitator: facilitates small group meetings Secretary: note-taking during small group exercises Term: one weekend (might be extended) QualiïŹcations Facilitator - manage the agenda - good listener - ability to handle disagreements - knows when to do a round - ability to summarize; bring ideas together QualiïŹcations Secretary - Good listener - able to summarize ideas - accurate recording of information - organized - can type
  • 32.
  • 33. Three key values 1. Equivalence 2. Effectiveness 3. Transparency
  • 34. Different strands of sociocracy ● Sociocratic Circle Method (minimum structure to make it work in org) ● S3: added some other “patterns” ● Holacracy: specified criteria for objections, formalized a lot of rules, separated operations and governance meetings clearly
  • 35. “Sociocracy: Democracy as It Might Be” (1945)
  • 39. Questions / Feedback Happy to stay in contact and collaborate. Send me an email and add me on: www.linkedin.com/in/vincentvanderlubbe Vincent van der Lubbe Hansei Consulting vincentvanderlubbe.com +34 696 27 88 72 | me@vincentvanderlubbe.com 39@vincentvdlubbe