Do-ocracy

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There is more work to be done than people to do it.

Those that do the work make the decisions.

This term is related to ad-hocracy. Ad-hocracy is a do-ocracy with an additional component of conflict resolution structure built in. Where there is a conflict over an important responsibility, the leadership is assumed by the person who has the most whuffie, earned from the do-ocray. Whuffie is the esteem of your commuity. (Cory Doctorow's "down and out in the magic kingdom". THere are two kinds of whuffie... right handed & left handed whuffie. One is the unweighted esteem of the commmunity while the other is what those who you respect think of that person.

Concern about do-ocracy is the overwhelming of those who are more timid. Turn-taking ... be bold. Guidelines on how to engage in the do-ocracy. Dealing with bullies and bullying and people with lots of time.

Truck endurance contest ... put your hand on the truck, last person standing (with hand on truck wins it).

Edit wars and editing policies.

One of the assumptions often made is that there is no structure in a do-ocracy or adhocracy. The tyranny of the anti-structuralist. Nothing gets done because there is not mechanism to make contentious decisions quickly.

Conflict-resolution. Nebulous... those who do the work have more power to set policy.

In an adhocracy everyone has a fixed set of resources... their own time. As you do good things (or waste) with it, you can direct more of your time. Adding value... this is the combination of quality changes and quantity.



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