Humanocracy

 

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Scale It Up

De-bureaucratizing yourself, giving away power, running local experiments—these are good places to start, but they’re not enough. Ultimately, you need to mobilize your entire organization around the challenge of building a humanocracy. To do that, you’re going to need to think like an activist.

It’s activists, not bureaucrats, who change the world—individuals like Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Prize–winning Pakistani teenager who, after surviving an assassination attempt by the Taliban, launched a global campaign to expand education opportunities for girls; or Greta Thunberg, another teenager, whose protest outside the Swedish Parliament inspired more than a million kids from 125 countries to skip a day of school and lobby ...