Explore our toolbox of articles, books, tools, templates and practices that Greaterthan members use in their work. They are free for you to use under a Creative Commons license.
by Alicia Trepat
Networks have a high degree of self-organising, so closing a network is very different from closing a traditional organisation. In the latter a few people at the top make the decision, which has consequences for everyone else working there. It’s not possible to just shut networks down
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by Greaterthan members
Re-watch the many events and talks we have hosted with guests and given ourselves, on our youtube channel.
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by Alicia Trepat
Greaterthan's podcast mini-series 'Affectively' about Alicia Trepat's research about Affect in Self- Organising groups.
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by Francesca Pick, Susan Basterfield and Lyssa Adkins
Introducing The HOW, Greaterthan’s new show and podcast on organisational change - the future of work is already here... it's just unevenly distributed. Join us and learn how to practise a new kind of leadership, where we interrogate hierarchy, wrangle with power and centralised decision making, and subtract ‘management’ from change management. In episode 1 we kick-off season 1 of The HOW and explore how we got here.
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by Anna Kopacz & David Weingartner
Getting out of the building: 5 reasons to take your team outdoors
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by Manel Heredero
It is undeniable that TED is a remarkable example of an innovative organisation that is having a huge impact. They are accomplishing their mission of spreading ideas worth spreading, and building a phenomenal business at the same time. Here are some lessons from their journey, from a network lens.
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by Ashish Arora
The article explores how the founders of the organisations sometimes end up becoming a block for their transition towards self-management. It also provides insights on how to work around such blindspots. The article is based on the author's work with clients in India.
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by Sally McCutchion
There is an historical precedent that says talking about money is uncouth, impolite or improper. Our view is this precedent is outdated. Join Sally McCutchion in this article, with her key principles around compensation, salary transparency and impact levelling.
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by Sally McCutchion
One of the biggest barriers to overcoming consensus-think is the allure that it holds. Those early days when everyone was aligned and clear on where you are going are magical. Relationships deepen and there is a strong feeling of security when you can reach a shared decision quickly.
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by Manel Heredero
This is the story of in99, a small legaltech startup, that put in place a process to recruit high-quality professionals without a HR department and without one-on-one interviews. Doing this is part of their journey towards what they call a “Distributed Future”, which includes, amongst other things, becoming a Remote First company.
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by Alicia Trepat Pont
“There’s a lot of love in our network, but not enough care”, “We don’t have enough money to cover our admin costs this year”. If you’ve ever been in a supporting role related to finances or value flows in a community or network, you can surely relate to some of these situations.
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by Francesca Pick
Networks based on self-organizing principles have come a long way in recent years to becoming true alternatives to working in more traditional organizations —from locally based or online communities, coops, freelancer collectives, “Neo-Guilds” or DAOs. Yet when it comes to addressing questions of money, value and power, we still seem to be lagging behind.
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by Jaya Brekke, Kate Beecroft, Francesca Pick
Peer-to-peer networks and protocols have inspired new ideas and ideologies about governance, with the aim of using technology to enable horizontal and decentralised decision making at scale. This paper introduces the concept of ‘dissensus’ from political theory to debates about peer governance in online communities
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by Kate Beecroft
This Science for Policy report explores the current status of the field of Distributed Ledger Technologies both theoretically and empirically, in the framework of the project #DLT4Good: Co-creating a European Ecosystem of DLTs for Social and Public Good.
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by Susan Basterfield
Rethinking Organisations enabled Support Providers in Western Australia to explore alternative organisational theory and practices that could potentially benefit the human services sector. This resource shares the outcomes and learnings from this project.
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by Francesca Pick
Do completely horizontal organizations truly exist? Fueled by excitement about self-management, bossless leadership and models such as Holacracy, we increasingly hear unrealistic claims about the potential of “flat organizations”.
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by Francesca Pick
Here is how the League of Intrapreneurs engaged their global community of ambassadors by letting them to allocate 30 000 € through collaborative funding. An interview with global catalysts Maggie de Pree & Florencia Estrade.
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by Kate Beecroft
The dominant story of money is one where competition for scarce resources is at the heart of social and economic life. Yet our relationship to money remains a deeply personal thing — complicated, heartbreaking, uplifting, stressful.
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by Francesca Pick
Organizations need to be able to make decisions about how to allocate resources. Especially for self-managing, participatory, or ‘teal’ organizations, there is a lack of collaborative decision-making models and tools around money.
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by Anthony Cabraal
This is the story behind Better Work Together, Enspiral's first book, co-authored by a collection of 11 members. A book about their personal journeys with the network and how the power of community can transform your business.
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by Lisa Gill
After having run a great remote meetings training for over 800+ people all over the world, here are some insights on the biggest challenges we have heard people are wrestling with, and a few of our favorite tips for addressing them.
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Francesca Pick
The Enspiral Network has been practising collaborative funding since 2013. As the network’s needs and realities have changed over the years, this practice we call ‘cobudgeting’, has evolved alongside it.
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by Lisa Gill
What does leadership look like in a company with no bosses? How do you develop a culture that allows self-managing organisations to thrive? In this book, Lisa Gill and Karin Tenelius share stories and insights from nearly twenty years of coaching teams and organisations to become self-managing.
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by Alícia Trepat, Ana Manzanedo
This guide presents the key positive design principles to build caring and inclusive organizations. These principles are the result of the study of 15 organizations (which can be found at the end of this document) and the underlying principles and best practices they have in common.
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by Ouishare Community
A guide to how the Ouishare community works and governs itself. We contribute to this handbook as active community members.
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by Enspiral Network
A handbook to Enspiral's structures and practices for community members and the world. As active community members, we contribute and support this handbook.
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by Greaterthan
This handbook is a guide to how Greaterthan operates as an organization. It explains how our structure is setup, how we make decisions and work together, key projects we work on, and more. It is a living repository, which is updated as our practices and team agreements evolve
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by Tom Nixon
The simplest way to visualise self-managing organizations: Circles, People, Roles
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Cobudget is a collaborative funding an budgeting tool used by groups around the world for participatory processes and fund distribution.
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by Francesca Pick, Kate Beecroft
A five step guide to running participatory proposal and budgeting processes in collaborative groups and organizations.
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by Francesca Pick, Kate Beecroft
A handbook on the human side of budgeting and financial decision-making for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).
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by Elena Denaro
A useful team meeting template that helps you create a dynamic and collectively held agenda. Adapted from Percolab.
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