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Governance and Decision-making tools | Comparison tables - SocialCompare - 0 views

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governance decision-making

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  • Ferananda Ibarra on 22 Mar 13
     
    Social compare table of different governance and decision-making tools 
Ferananda Ibarra

Caught in Our Own Words « how to save the world - 0 views

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ferananda language

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  • Much of what we believe, and much of what we are trying to change, is rooted in the terminology, the language we use to discuss it. If we want to change our own ideas , beliefs and worldviews, we need to stop using that terminology, because it leaves us anchored in the paradigm we are trying to escape.
  • idea of “reframing” conversations, because as long as you are talking with someone who has a different frame or worldview about a subject, you will never achieve an understanding or appreciation of the other person’s perspectives and beliefs, or what underlies them
  • If you want to change your thinking, they say, you must first change the old-paradigm words and expressions you use.
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  • Natural Enterprise can’t properly be described in terms like “competitive positioning” or “marketing strategy” or “venture capital” or “return on investment” because these terms are meaningless to cooperative enterprises that have no need to compete, or market, or raise funds.
  • f we were to measure our collective well-being (including the well-being of non-humans and our planet as a whole), what kind of language would we use, and what concepts would emerge that need new words or new appreciation? How would we ‘design’ a system whose purpose is to improve our understanding and appreciation of each other and to make decisions in our collective best interest? It certainly wouldn’t involve voting, lobbying, corporate campaign funding
  • And how would we ‘design’ a system whose purpose is to optimize our capacity to care for each other and our collective well-being?
  • develop ‘scripts’ of new terms and expressions that, as challenging and even bewildering as they may be to many who will listen to or read our words, will be consistent with a more natural, empathetic, healthy and radically critical worldview of how the world really works, and will enable us to truly imagine, and creep our way towards, a realization of systems that embody such a worldview.
  • Ferananda Ibarra on 19 Apr 13
     
    "Much of what we believe, and much of what we are trying to change, is rooted in the terminology, the language we use to discuss it. If we want to change our own ideas , beliefs and worldviews, we need to stop using that terminology, because it leaves us anchored in the paradigm we are trying to escape."
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Democracy in honeybees and other animals: What humans can learn from social species. - ... - 0 views

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collective intelligence Swarm intelligence Governance

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  • The idea that ants, honeybees, or other social animals might do a thing or two better than we do is ancient.
  • Tom Seeley has written a lovely and compelling book titled Honeybee Democracy which suggests we turn to the bees to see how they make decisions. Thanks to the work of Seeley and his collaborators, it is now clear that honeybee hives really are democratic.
  • When it’s time to look for a new nest, options are weighted by the evaluations of many different bees about a site’s qualities—its size, its humidity, the density of surrounding flowers. Individual bees vote with dances, and when the number of dances in favor of some particular site is high enough, the masses are swayed. Together, citizen bees choose, if not perfection, the best possible option.
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  • In ants, choices about how to nest or feed also seem democratic, though a few experts influence the process. Some ants just know more than others.
  • One aspect of the honeybee royal lifestyle Tarpy studies is mating behavior. He is fascinated by promiscuity, at least in honeybees. Honeybee queens mate multiple times and store sperm in a special internal appendage. They can then allocate the sperm to produce their offspring. Tarpy has shown that more promiscuous queens produce colonies that are more genetically diverse and are less at risk of disease.
  • Tarpy also studies how queens are elected. A queen is not a president (the president is not in charge of literally birthing the next generation, for example), yet honeybees do choose their leader.
  • Ferananda Ibarra on 06 Nov 12
     
    Awesome article. I did highlite it but really deserves a full read. 
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