<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 3:37 PM, Grace Gellerman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ggellerman@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">ggellerman@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Below are two articles about modern work that I found helpful:</span><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div></div></blockquote><div>...</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif">A less recent article on self-organizing teams:</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2016/12/20/three-common-misunderstandings-of-self-organized-teams/#8a9726b195e0" target="_blank">https://www.forbes.com/sites/<wbr>forbescoachescouncil/2016/12/<wbr>20/three-common-<wbr>misunderstandings-of-self-<wbr>organized-teams/#8a9726b195e0</a><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>From that article, I clicked to <a href="https://medium.com/@jurgenappelo/the-7-levels-of-delegation-672ec2a48103">The 7 Levels of Delegation</a>, and was struck by how similar they are to <a href="http://www.communityatwork.com/images/Kaners_Decision_Rules_2010.pdf">Kaner's decision-making rules</a>.  Maybe that's totally obvious in retrospect, that a looser decision-making rule is another way of saying, a more delegated decision?  Let's see:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><ol><li>Tell</li><li>Sell</li><li>Consult</li><li>Agree (consensus)<br></li><li>Advise</li><li>Inquire</li><li>Delegate</li></ol><div>vs</div><div><ul><li>Do what they are told</li><li>convince the person-in-charge</li><li>majority vote</li><li>Unanimous agreement</li><li>Delegation</li></ul><div></div><div>They sort of overlap and they sort of don't.  I think the superset of these two lists could be interesting.  Also, the 7 levels of delegation is focused on how someone with power can hand off that power, whereas Kaner's list is about different ways a group of people can make a decision and how these ways affect group dynamics.<br></div></div></div></div></div>