The Plains

How teams give decision-making, authority and delegation abilities to other members.

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

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