Money

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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.

The How Podcast | Season 1

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.

Happy Money Story: How it happens in Greaterthan and what ripples it creates!

by Ashish Arora

In this article, the author shares his insights on how the practice of Happy Money Story is transforming Greaterthan as an organization

We Need To Talk About Compensation

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 Our view is this precedent is outdated.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.

Happy Money Story: Decoupling remuneration from calculation

by Francesca Pick

This is a case study that looks at the evolution and insights from one of Greaterthan's internal, the ‘Happy Money Story’, a collaborative process for distributing budgets.

Agile Team in BlackwoodSeven

by Francesca Pick

Read about how the marketing agency BlackwoodSeven experimented with Cobudget.

Financial decision making in self-organized networks: 4 common challenges

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.

The Dissensus Protocol: governing differences in peer-to-peer online communities

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

Scanning the European Ecosystem of Distributed Ledger Technologies for Social and Public Good

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.

Collaborative funding as a tool for agency & shared responsiblity

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.

Money is a story: let’s tell a new one

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.

Investing surplus for impact: Cobudgeting at Outlandish

by Kate Beecroft

How Outlandish, a web services consultancy based in London uses Cobudget to democratically distribute dividends to all cooperative members as a way to invest in new projects they care about.

How to use cobudgeting for member engagement

by Francesca Pick

How the Institute for Evolutionary Leadership, a self-managed community of practitioners has been using cobudgeting for over many years to engage and empower their members.

Run a kick-ass collaborative funding round in 5 steps

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.

Sharing Power by Sharing Money: Cobudget in Enspiral

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.

Work with Source

by Tom Nixon

Realise big ideas, organise for emergence and work artfully with money. A guide based on Peter Koenig's "Source Principles".

Designing positive platforms: a guide for a governance-based approach

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.

Cobudget

Cobudget is a collaborative funding an budgeting tool used by groups around the world for participatory processes and fund distribution.

5 Steps to Collaborative funding

by Francesca Pick, Kate Beecroft

A five step guide to running participatory proposal and budgeting processes in collaborative groups and organizations.

The TAO of the DAO

by Francesca Pick, Kate Beecroft

A handbook on the human side of budgeting and financial decision-making for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).