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# The Plains

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**Ideal for**\
Teams who need to move fast and have a high degree of trust in their leadership. 
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## Structure

**A flat organization. All members are at the same level of authority. No member has authority to give direction to another and no members require sustained guidance.**

### Examples include:

* co-ops and other member organizations, 
* 1-member-1-vote DAOs/DHOs, 
* true anarchy,
* worker guilds (translating, coding, etc)
* etc. 

### Suggested When:

All members are doing similar complexity of tasks and have similar self-organisation requirements, sensing, and coordination abilities. This is ideal for founder teams (start ups), collectives (like worker guilds) and other small organizations.  

### Known Pitfalls:

Sets limits to growth (which could also be a benefit) as teams are encouraged to only seek members who will contribute equally to the organization.

### Hypha DHO Template:

*

#### Authored by Rieki Cordon, Hypha DHO


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