August's Starter Governance Kernel
Governance is recorded as either Roles or Policies. All of it is changeable with data on a cycle-by-cycle cadence, at open, facilitated Governance Meetings. Policies apply to teams that create them, and to any sub-teams. Everything else is up to your best judgement.
August’s Specific Public Benefit
At the beginning, August had two key goals: making a significant contribution to human productivity growth; being the fuel for meaningful innovation.
The New Model for Scaling a Company
Three old technologies (rule of law, market forces, and transparency) can help us move toward seven universal performance criteria for organizations: purpose; fitness; vitality; fairness; power; connection; safety.
Amazon & Achievement
Using Amazon as a way to understand what works, what doesn’t, and what’s got to change.
The Main Objective: Legitimacy
When it comes to organizing humans, the only thing that matters is legitimacy.