The PowerShift Primer
encode.org
Article · 30 min read · For: Owners / executives, Trainers / facilitators
A short statement of the principles behind encode.org's PowerShift governance system. Read it to understand why constitution-based self-management works the way it does before getting into the rules themselves.
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Problems it helps with
- I've read about Holacracy but don't understand the principles under the rules
- We want to distribute authority but don't know what to write down
- Everything still runs through the founder
What it covers
- Nine principles of distributed authority
- How roles and rules replace a management hierarchy
- How the ruleset extends to organizations that use AI agents
Topics: Community and collective governance · Org structure: triangles to circles · Self-management overview