Organizational Structure

An organization is a group of people coordinating towards a common purpose.

• Society is an organization.

• Community is an organization.

• Family is an organization.

Organizations are inclusive.

• People can be a part of many organizations at the same time.

• Organizations can be a part of many organizations at the same time.

Organizations involve responsibilities that their members must assume.

• Recruiting more members is a responsibility.

• Making things and providing services is a responsibility.

• Communicating with others in and out of the organization is a responsibility.

• Safeguarding physical and digital assets is a responsibility.

• Dismissing others from responsibility is a responsibility.

Great organizations bring out the best that their groups can achieve.

• The best productive and educational efficiency and versatility.

• The best intrinsic motivation.

• The best organizational resilience.

Organizational responsibilities are identified through systems engineering.

• Systems that start broad and few and end deep and numerous.

• Systems that require members to assume system-expanding responsibilities.

“Expansionary participation” is a system-creation process that provides significant efficiency, autonomy, and scalability, at the cost of almost completely losing management time.

• The founding team of the organization produces a basic systems engineering diagram going up a level in depth from the mission to the first set of specific systems.

• The founding team assumes responsibility for one or more of those specific systems and recruits more teams to assume the remainder (of the specific systems).

• The founding team and the newly recruited teams all produce another systems engineering diagram that goes up a level from each team's specific system to a second set of more specific systems.

• More teams are recruited and more systems engineering diagrams are produced until each team's system becomes specific enough to work on within the schedule without further task relegation to new teams.

Expansionary participation causes the organization to structure itself according to the systems engineering diagrams.

• Every step of recruiting and systems engineering involves passing on recruiting responsibilities to all teams within the organization.

• Every step of recruiting and systems engineering may involve peer review for the new teams to understand and criticize the current-level systems diagram.

• Every step of recruiting and systems engineering may involve more and more specific parameter-setting for the new teams to understand the design constraints and goals they are developing with.