Ultimately, Agreements are a collective wish we make about how we might be in the same space together. That space could be a classroom, a sports team, a club, a conference, committees or boards, an organizing group. They reflect what we need to participate while feeling joyful, trusted, and brave.
But they also can be flimsy as hell.
But they also can be flimsy as hell.
Elise Granata • The Occasional Flimsiness of Group Agreements
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Exercise caution when using this approach; make sure that you can follow through with this implied commitment.
Jeffrey Hiatt • ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government and our Community
-You can also make commitments to other network participants such as developers. There's no platform that can change the rules, take rates, APIs, etc.
Chris Dixon • The Potential of Blockchain Technology
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1. Make credible commitments
Venture Desktop • Global Like Goldman
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A discipline that makes implied commitments markedly more manageable is to declare publicly a small number of important commitments. They are written down and shared with all parties. The maker and receiver of the commitment have to agree on the wording before the commitment is revealed to anyone else. This only works if the number of explicit comm
... See moreSteve McMenamin • Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior (Dorset House eBooks)
Here’s a key question to ask as a test of the strength of commitments: does the other side have anything to lose if it reneges on its promise? If it has nothing to lose, you have no commitment. If it has a lot to lose, you have a solid commitment. Commitments come in many forms because there are many ways to give people “something to lose” if they
... See moreG. Richard Shell • Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
Terms like “best effort” are both common in contracts and soft in nature. Who shall determine best effort? We will see the rise of “subjective oracles’’ to address this issue. People will be able to serve as judges via decentralized protocols, and will be paid for their input. They will build a reputation, which will impact their earnings and futur... See more
Collaborative Fund • The Future of Work
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That thread could come in the form of a verbal or written pledge,