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S3 Principles poster - free

August 11, 2021

Before summer I visited all the S3 Principles it resulted in seven different post but I was thinking that maybe it could be interesting to have the on one page, so now I present the S3 poster. You can find a high-res version in the “free material”.

I hope you like it :)

Continuous improvement - S3

June 14, 2021

This is the final and seventh posts of the principles of Sociocracy 3.0, if you want to know more please talk to me or visit the Sociocracy 3.0 homepage

The previous post can be found here:

Comic, panel 1. A manager in a red tie points at a note on the board “Stuff”: “How much work is this?” A team member: “Well, not to much I would guess” The manager: “Ok we might as well do it now then.” A column labelled “Backlog” stands beside them.

Panel 2. The manager: “What about this one?” The team member: “Sort of the same size I guess.” The manager: “Let’s add it to the top also.” The team member: “But is it important?” The manager: “It’s so small, it won’t show.”

Panel 3. The backlog has grown into a long column of notes. One figure: “I wonder why this critical thing never gets done?” Another: “I don’t know we are really working hard and the backlog is always in good order.”

Text panel: “The principle of continuous improvement: Regularly review the outcome of what you are doing, and then make incremental improvements to what you do and how you do it, based on what you learn, so that you can adapt to changes when necessary, and maintain or improve effectiveness over time.”

Icon: figures riding a looping arrow that points upward, between two stars.

Empiricism - S3

June 3, 2021

This is my sixth of seven posts of the principles of Sociocracy 3.0, if you want to know more please talk to me or visit the Sociocracy 3.0 homepage

The previous post can be found here:

Comic, panel 1. A figure wearing a crown with a light bulb: “You must be mad! Don’t you read the scrolls?” Another figure: “Yes well, but from the evidence that I can see they seem to be wrong on this subject.”

Panel 2. The one with the crown: “That’s blasphemy! It’s clearly written. Now stop this silly nonsense.” The other holds up a paper with calculations: “But, but I have evidence.” The one with the crown: “Evidence, bah! Everybody knows...”

Panel 3. A flat world on the back of a turtle floats through space: “...that the world is round.”

Text panel: “The principle of empiricism: Test all assumptions you rely on, through experiments and continuous revision, so that you learn fast, make sense of things and navigate complexity as effectively as you can.”

Icon: a bubbling flask.

Effectiveness - S3

May 27, 2021

This is my fifth of seven posts of the principles of Sociocracy 3.0, if you want to know more please talk to me or visit the Sociocracy 3.0 homepage

The previous post can be found here:

Comic, panel 1. Someone standing on a ladder drops a note into a huge vat full of notes, where figures are drowning: “Sure! We just add it to the backlog, no problems.”

Panel 2. A small figure looks up at the enormous backlog vat.

Text panel: “The principle of effectiveness: Devote time only to what brings you closer towards achieving your organization’s overall objectives, so that you can make the best use of your limited time, energy and resources.”

Icon: an arrow in the centre of a target.