Compassionate Collaboration 🤝

Thoughts on team-work, governance and prosocial collaboration

Network Leadership Toolkit

1 Pager & Summary

“Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.”
—Edward O. Wilson

What it takes to grab the biggest slice of the pie is different than what it takes to make the biggest pie. This is, quite literally, the fundamental problem of human social life, and it is just as true for an individual in a team as it is for a nation-state arguing that it should be allowed to release more carbon than other nations.

We need to construct conditions in which altruism can thrive.

What's in it for me → What's in it for us? Eco-system!

The three Cs of human distinctiveness:

Cooperation. First, we easily cooperate with others who are genetically unrelated to us and are by far the most cooperative primate.
Cognition. Second, our cognition is different, especially our capacity for symbolic thought and relational learning.
Culture. And, third, we culturally transmit more learned behavioral information across generations than other species.

Prototyping vs Planning Paradigm

Building biodegradability into the design — including processes for monitoring and identifying when ecosystems have evolved, and so when different kinds of intermediation and shifts in intermediary types and/or functions may be needed. Boards of intermediaries need to encourage not only growth and innovation, but also address purposeful decline

Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation • Governance in and for complexity

Team Canvas - Bring Your Team on the Same Page

Team Canvas

DesignLens: Life's Principles - Biomimicry 3.8

To start of a revolution, throw a better party

Beyond the Rules

darkmatterlabs.notion.site

Beyond the Rules is an initiative that practices organising and governance for an economy designed for life. We are particularly interested in the deep, thoughtful and highly creative work required to rewrite, reinvent or reimagine rules, norms and laws that hold us in the current system.