| The deliberations, decisions and acts of all members of the community acting within the structure in pursuit of their common purpose in accordance with their principles. |
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- For the community: An evolving infrastructure of activity to enabling the pursuit of purpose.
- For the individual: The specific tasks, enterprises and activities that are full of value and meaning.
- The pursuit of purpose, both collectively and individually.
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- The activities, products and services through which the participants pursue the organization's purpose and create value.
- Focus on practices that cannot be achieved without a chaordic organization, or those that are essential to making the organization a coherent yet flexible working whole.
- Chaordic organizations are fundamentally enabling entities.
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- Create value of all kinds, both monetary and non-monetary.
- Multiple pathways to pursue any goal or activity.
- Constantly open to further innovation.
- Powerful reinforcing interplay among the various parts of the system.
- Critical mass of core functions available to all participants from within every part of the system.
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- Insufficient critical mass of functions or participants to be self-sustaining.
- Locks in only single way of doing things.
- Isolated from other parts of the system.
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- What are we currently doing that we want to do better, more effectively or more efficiently?
- What opportunities do we envision that we cannot currently pursue?
- What kinds of innovative practices or activities are required by current or emerging trends in our community, field or industry?
- What critical functions are necessary to ensure organizational coherence while fostering self-organization on the part of all participants?
- As they were,
- As they are,
- As they might become,
- As they ought to be.
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- Identification of practices takes place throughout the design process.
- Illuminates possibilities and priorities.
- Initial activities can inform design process.
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