Network & community building

Building Thriving Networks

Alicia Trepat Pont

“There’s a lot of love in our network, but not enough care”, “We don’t have enough money to cover our admin costs this year”. If you’ve ever been in a supporting role related to finances or value flows in a community or network, you can surely relate to some of these situations.

Financial decision making in self-organized networks: 4 common challenges

Francesca Pick

Networks based on self-organizing principles have come a long way in recent years to becoming true alternatives to working in more traditional organizations —from locally based or online communities, coops, freelancer collectives, “Neo-Guilds” or DAOs. Yet when it comes to addressing questions of money, value and power, we still seem to be lagging behind.

Masks Off: Leadership Strategies

Francesca Pick

Francesca Pick talks about how to replace traditional business structures with more networked ones

Management 3.0 Happiness at work

Kate Beecroft

What is so important about community in business? Kate Beecroft talks community, money, transparency and bibliotherapists.

Engendered Podcast

Susan Basterfield

Susan Basterfield and Gina Stevens-Rembe talk about Enspiral and its feminist business ecosystem.

Team Human Interview with Douglas Rushkoff

Susan Basterfield, Anthony Cabraal

Anthony Cabraal and Susan Basterfield discuss the power of working together, building on ideas “good enough to try,” and creating a space where it’s “safe to fail.”

Cut the bullshit: organizations with no hierarchy don’t exist

by Francesca Pick

Do completely horizontal organizations truly exist? Fueled by excitement about self-management, bossless leadership and models such as Holacracy, we increasingly hear unrealistic claims about the potential of “flat organizations”.

Better Work Together: the story behind the book

by Anthony Cabraal

This is the story behind Better Work Together, Enspiral's first book, co-authored by a collection of 11 members. A book about their personal journeys with the network and how the power of community can transform your business.

Better Work Together

Enspiral

A collection of stories and tools from the front lines of the future of working together. A collectively produced book by members of the Enspiral community, and actively supported by Greaterthan.

Designing positive platforms: a guide for a governance-based approach

Alícia Trepat, Ana Manzanedo

This guide presents the key positive design principles to build caring and inclusive organizations. These principles are the result of the study of 15 organizations (which can be found at the end of this document) and the underlying principles and best practices they have in common.

Ouishare Handbook

Ouishare Community

A guide to how the Ouishare community works and governs itself. We contribute to this handbook as active community members.

Enspiral Handbook

Enspiral Network

A handbook to Enspiral's structures and practices for community members and the world. As active community members, we contribute and support this handbook.