Delegate all authority for making governance decisions to circles, double-linked across all levels of the hierarchy, to transition from a traditional hierarchy towards a structure more suitable for tapping collective intelligence, ensuring equivalence, and building engagement.

  1. On all levels of your organization, shift responsibility for governance decision-making from individuals to circles by granting teams formal authority for making certain governance decisions themselves.
  2. Each circle’s members select one of their group to represent their interests and participate in the governance decision-making of the next higher circle, and vice versa.

A double-linked hierarchy:

  • brings equivalence to governance
  • maintains the potential for a functional hierarchy (if it enables the flow of value).
A double-linked hierarchy: not your typical hierarchy
A double-linked hierarchy: not your typical hierarchy

See also: Circle, Double Linking, Representative