Comment by bawolff

> Toward the end of our time at CAS we experimented with sociocracy as a way to organize without hierarchy and coercion, but despite my enthusiasm for the form, we didn’t start with universal buy-in or understanding from the whole team

So they wanted to organize without hierarchy or coercion, but their plan depended on everyone agreeing on everything?

It just feels kind of silly. The hard part of organization is that not everyone will agree on everything. Its what you do when that happens that is the question and how you resolve disputes fairly. If your starting point is that there won't be any disputes, then you have already lost.

Quite frankly i think the biggest problem is that the author of this piece is frustrated he wasn't able to coerce people to his point of view.