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Paper: The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Hierarchies are good at achieving the specific ends they were set up to achieve, but they are not well suited to addressing complex issues that have no readily apparent solution.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
Structure is especially important in instances when members don’t follow community guidelines or aren’t aligned with the DAO’s mission and operations. Core contributors rely on guardrails to “offboard” members in these instances, and they’ve shared that it’s easier to do when guardrails are created and implemented early on. Without them, offboardin... See more
Kassen Qian • DAO Essentials: 6 Key Onboarding Practices
Ostensibly, having a flat organization is a good idea. You know, everyone should be equal and have the same rights, blablabla. But not having a formally defined power structure would only lead to the tyranny of structurelessness, where informal power structures form spontaneously from preexisting social relations between members, producing leaders ... See more
Zefram Lou • Why Voting Tokens Are F**king Horrible, And 4 Ways to Fix Them
The structure is where you will find the policies, dynamics of power, perceptions, and purpose. If left unchanged, the structure is where the vast majority of damage to the system will come from, as the trends and events will continue to repeat themselves.
Albert Rutherford • The Systems Thinker - Mental Models
some subset of people has taken on the role of defining and shaping the work to be done. When this goes poorly, we get tyrants, demagogues,
Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
famous statement of that finding came from the feminist writer Jo Freeman, who in her 1972 essay “The Tyranny of Structurelessness” observed that when groups operate on vague or anarchic terms, structurelessness “becomes a smokescreen for the strong or the lucky to establish unquestioned hegemony over others.”