Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: How do we hold each other accountable?

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On Jul 25, 2010, at 7:08 AM, Craig Ragland wrote:

> Well, I do believe that simplistic, even-steven views of fairness  
> create
> major challenges.

What our workshare people have done is to state that these are  
minimums and some people will always do more. Nothing will ever be  
"equal." Fair, we don't talk about.

But one task that never gets factored in is the amount of time that  
research and planning take. Our people who supervise jobs on workdays  
both supervise (and work) for the whole workday but also can spend as  
many hours or more planning and purchasing the material in the days  
before.

Or in doing a big job like replacing floors. The research, getting  
bids (which is also information gathering), getting community  
approvals of both design and money, and supervising the work is  
largely invisible and doesn't "count."

The coordination work and planning that a team leader does plus  
coaxing team members along to finish work is also work that isn't  
visible.

I'm hoping that in the more structured steering and planning of  
dynamic governance, the work done by team leaders and representatives  
will count head work as equal to hand work.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
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