Compassionate Collaboration 🤝
Thoughts on team-work, governance and prosocial collaboration
Compassionate Collaboration 🤝
Why Who How Where What When
17.17 Infrastructure
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The Ready _ Operating System Canvas 2022
The text outlines a workshop process using the OS Canvas to identify organizational tensions and bright spots, facilitating discussions to improve team dynamics and operational effectiveness within a company.
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“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.
Toolkit | Fito Network
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The recipe for creating a coordi-nation has 7 steps.
- Build or Join a Community of Kinship: find or found a community that purports to fulfill the needs of its members through participatory governance and voluntary participation.
- Identify other related or resonating communities: find communities that share the same “pattern integrity.”
- Encourage
Jessy Kate Schingler • Coordi-Nations: A New Institutional Structure for Global Cooperation
There are 6 Key Patterns -which are based on what we have observed so far in collaborative innovation:
Diverging & Converging
Checking Back
Leveraging Tensions
Design Squiggle
Working Concurrently
Spiralling
The Leveraging Tensions pattern involves recognizing and embracing the creative tension between seemingly opposing values, referred to as "polarities." This tension is essential for breakthroughs and for bringing something new to life. Examples like Action and Analysis illustrate the need for balance in these polarities.
Acknowledging creative tensions is crucial for the collaboration, and avoiding conflicts or seeking to bypass tensions can hinder deeper learning, trust-building, and breakthrough ideas. It is important to address the discomfort associated with tensions, there is a missed opportunities for progress when tensions are not leveraged well.
Facilitating collaborative sessions with creative tensions requires framing them as natural and positive. Proactively naming specific value-pairs and helping stakeholders understand the benefits of each tension are practical tips.