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- Blocking Progress
Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1983
Howard Ryan maintains that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Managing Volunteers, Building Consensus, Nurturing Creativity
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1987
Techniques for managing volunteers, staff and board members for positive results; how to make everyone more effective; and methods to reduce conflict while building consensus.
- On Organization
Resource Type: Article
Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
- On Revolutionary Organization: Points for Discussion
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1934
- Organizations Are Made Up of People
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
In last month’s newsletter I wrote about the need for specificity in formulating strategy and in planning for its implementation. I pointed out that a key to success is the need to put someone in charge of its implementation.
- Les organizations sont constituees de personnes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Dans l’infolettre du mois dernier, j’abordais la nécessité d’être spécifique lorsqu’il s’agit de formuler une stratégie et de planifier sa mise en œuvre. Je faisais remarquer qu’une des clés du succès consiste à désigner une personne responsable de c
- Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
- Resource Manual for A Living Revolution
A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effect on change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a "structureless" group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible; it may vary over time; it may evenly or unevenly distribute tasks, power and resources over the members of the group. But it will be formed regardless of the abilities, personalities, or intentions of the people involved.
- Vanguard, Vanguard, Who's Got the Vanguard?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1972
A critique of Leninist vanguard-party theories and practice, especially as manifested in the new left groups of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Published in the May 1972 and August 1972 issues of Liberation magazine.
- What a Way to Run a Railroad
An Analysis of Radical Failure
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
How can the high failure rate of radical projects, in the media and elsewhere, be understood? This book analyses the reasons why many of the key organisations and projects in this sector, which grew up during the 1970s boom in cultural politics, either collapsed or moved into a state of permanent crisis. In attempting to come to terms with this 'history of failure' the key concepts of this movement -- collectivity, internal democracy, participation -- are critically re-examined, and an argument is presented as to how and why radical projects also need to redefine their priorities and take on board questions of efficiency, financial control and marketing if they are to survive.
- Wrongful Dismissal, Denial and Deflection - The Impact on Employees and the Organizational Culture
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The PSLRB ruling in the D. Tipple/PWGSC case gives us a look at the reality in PWGSC, the Federal Public Service and any organization where the culture is risk-averse and focused on blame-storming, denial and deflection. What is the cost of this?
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