Friends and Fellow Practicioners,
We have an opportunity to promote Holacracy through education here at Likewise and I want to steward this opportunity well...excellently, actually. Likewise is a nonprofit education provider with a certified college that is first of its kind in several ways.
The most striking way is that our mission makes us history's first liberal arts college focused on helping prison inmates and their families through a liberal arts education.
As such a college in our home state of Arkansas, Likewise is uniquely positioned to start a K12 charter school. We need your help with defending the Holacracy model for our management structure - which is another striking feature and equally important for promoting learning, liberty, and leadership for today and tomorrow's world.
As our K12 division succeeds, the reputation of Holacracy will spread through our students, parents, and educational leadership influence.
Simply out, Holacracy is already baked into our program and is part of the change in thinking that's benefiting the most challenging and challenged college students on the planet: prison inmates. They're a great proof of concept for our education model. Still, the accrediting specialists that we'll encounter during the next few years need an education in new management so that they can better understand and embrace our commitment to Holacracy
We need a list of books dealing with new management that you fellow practicioners have read. My journey into Holacracy started with the Bible and ancient classics (Plato, Sallust, Cicero, etc.). More contemporary works from The Enlightenment also pushed me toward Holacracy (Locke, Rousseau, the US Founders, etc.). Living scholarship sealed the deal for me (Laloux, Robinson, Sinek, Hsieh, etc.). We'll use this list to make the case for higher education to embrace Holacracy, which could have a powerfully disruptive trickle down affect on society.
HERE'S THE ASK: what 3-5 books on new management have most influenced your interest in Holacracy? Or, what book in this category have you given most as a gift, and why?