Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: "Governance"

[Emilie Parker (emilie.v.parker]

I would look under Decision-Making and Governance.  Our group is forming
and we use the word governance to describe organization and decision making
because it makes sense to people: governance, government, govornors, etc.

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Emilie Parker
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process of disorientation and reorientation, taking part in the pleasures,
the discomforts, and the conflicts of discovery."
historian, Patricia Limerick


On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] 
sharonvillines.com
> wrote:

>
>
> > On Aug 25, 2015, at 10:47 AM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] 
> > sharonvillines.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I write a blog on Cohousing US and want a tag for “Governance”. Catya is
> questioning whether that is the best word—do people understand it or look
> for it. So I’m looking for a term that people might understand better.
>
>
> Of the options suggested as alternatives for “governance"
>
> “Management" is going out of style because of the association of top down
> hierarchies and a ‘upper class'. The preferred term now is “leader.” Groups
> need leaders even when self-organization is encouraged.
>
> Community Structure or organizational structure, I like, but structure
> sounds static. As Jerry said, it doesn’t imply “doing." Governance should
> be flexible and adjusting to needs.
>
> I found a quote by Stafford Beer who taught operational research and
> management cybernetics in the UK.
>
> "Cybernetics is the science of effective organization.”
>
> Sociocracy developed out of Quaker practice and cybernetics. I’m not sure
> how to get the Quaker influence in but “Organization” is good because it
> suggests both a noun and a verb. And is about doing something. You organize
> to do, and you have an organization.
>
> The first book on sociocracy published in 1988 was subtitled "The
> Organization of Decision-Making."
>
> So:
>
> Organization & Decision-Making
>
> Governance
>
> Sociocracy
>
> I think we need all three, though Governance also has the connotation of
> “the government” and too often viewed as “other.”
>
> What do you think?
>
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
> Sociocracy: A Deeper Democracy
> http://www.sociocracy.info
>
>
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