The Ground Rules: Self-Management

Trust

  • We relate to one another with an assumption of positive intent
  • Until we are proven wrong, trusting others is our default means of engagement (people are essentially good, unless proven otherwise)
  • Freedom and accountability are two sides of the same coin.

Information & Decision Making

  • All information is open to all: the Community supports full information transparency
  • Everyone can handle difficult / sensitive information
  • We believe in collective intelligence. Nobody is as smart as everybody. Therefore all decisions are to be made with the Advice Process

Responsibility & Accountability

  • Individuals shall keep commitments
  • We take full responsibility for our actions and relationships.
  • We our vested in our work, the Community’s purpose, its culture, results, reputation and values.
  • We each have full responsibility for the Community. If we sense that something needs to happen, we are empowered to address it.
  • Everyone must be comfortable with holding others accountable to their commitments through feedback & respectful confrontation

Initiative

  • Everyone is invited to take initiative at all levels all the time, needing only to invoke the Advice Process to access the collective intelligence of the group.
Self-Management:
  • Trust
  • Information & Decision Making
  • Responsibility & Accountability
  • Initiative
Wholeness
  • Equal Worth
  • Safe & Caring
  • Overcoming Separation
  • Learning
  • Relationship & Conflict Resolution
Evolutionary Purpose
  • Collective Purpose
  • Individual Purpose
  • Planning the Future
  • Profit