• Agreement-based organizations.
• Distributed network organizations.
• Purposeful organizations.
• Chaordic organizations.

• Objectives that suggest using a distributed strategy.
• Reference model for distributive self-governance.
• Strategy briefs:

• Identity Commons, an introduction.

• Principles for human organizations.
• Three levels of perspective on systems.
• Aligning all aspects of an organization.
• Enhancing network effects.

• A protocol for a network of corporations: fundamental provisions.
• Governing and enforcing agreements.
• Recursive, self-referencing agreements.
• Open systems strategy
• ID Commons Community License Corporation (CLC)

• A starter set of principles, v8.
• Principles of Open Partnerships.

• More than one right answer.
• Power vs. agreement, the org chart.
• Related disciplines.

• Story: Seeing Your First Abalone.
• Article: A Chaordic Walk in the Park.
• Article: Evolutionary Learning at Revolutionary Speeds.
• Notes: Making money and capitalization.

• Joel's bio.
• Glossary.
• TerraToys.
• Introduction to this site.

• Dee Hock's six lenses for organizational design.

• Dee's book: Birth of the Chaordic Age.
• Article: The Visa story.

• Chaordic Alliance notes on the six lenses.
• PowerPoint archive.

• Memo: Unbundling the Chaordic Commons constitution.
• Concept paper: Dept of Labor, O*NET, a labor market system.
• Outline: Corporation to enhance municipal development and citizen involvement in Portugal (Forais Azul).

• LLL Heartland, La Leche League International (LLLI).
• Identity Commons and XDI.ORG.
• Transforms, a for-benefit corporation.
• KaosPilots, Team 9.
• EqualShare.

• Purposeful investment.
• Philanthropic strategies for social change.
• Practices for effective philanthropy.

• Speech: A Difference that Makes a Difference

• Overlapping program teams at the Joyce Foundation, 1990-94.
• Social investing at F.B. Heron Foundation.

Personal Pages

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