# Jordan, Bill, and Pete May 8, 2023

- Bill: Desire to see clearly the direction and way I should be moving

## Topic
- Jordan would like to explore moving from individual stewarding of various things with Bill and Pete, to establishing a stewardship "triangle" that can be improved.
- The principle of 3

## Definition of Stewardship
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## What Are We Stewarding
- Lionsberg
- Community
- Infrastructure (technological, legal, process)
- Pete - the people heavily involved in these areas you don't want to be stewarding...
- The Product Manager and Development Manager - interrelationship between those roles
- Product can advocate strongly for what should be...
- Software person... can push back, force prioritization, allocate resources to pipeline
- If it is in one head - you get (too easy) of agreement with one another. Need to separate into multiple heads.
- If a person is too deep into the tech... they are advocating for tech instead of users... need someone who is advocating for the users and the mission...
- Lionsberg Commons
- Assets and resource flow
- Process of Using - Passwords / Information / banking
- Should be someone responsible with keys and responsibility...
- Should be distributed among a few people
- Various levels of sign-offs
- Whatever Groups We Each Participate In (Embodying the Pattern)

## Phase I of the Lionsberg Experience
- Lionsberg Membership + First Degree Groups (individuals forming groups)
- Then in Phase II - 2nd Degree Groups of Groups... (groups forming groups of groups)

## Expectations

## What Orgs Are Emerging
- Publishing
- Marley / OGM
- Bill / Hank / Michael / Jordan
- David B - + Events
- Website + E Books + Podcasts + Meeting Assets
- Kylie instructional curriculum
- Bruce design school
- Lionsberg Community
- Lionsberg Economic Federation
- Lionsberg Commons / Generative Commons
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- Lionsberg Incubator / Accelerator
- z
- Back-office Services and Support
- Legacy Consulting
- Bill, Jordan, Hank
- Business Acquistion / Transition
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- - Organizational Training / Consulting / Capacity Building
- Working with a changing world
- Hank and Bill and Jordan and Others...
- Have ideas they would like to turn over to teams that are passionate about building them
- A list of opportunities / potentials that sits in the Commons - and can be acted on...
- MDB Transition
- Above The Chaos Podcast
- Jerry's HyperTalk Podcast
- Pete - Art Journal
- Pete - LLM Guild - AI Training / Consulting (Yellow)
- Pete - Chainsaw - Data Transformation and Movement in the Cloud
- Meeting Artifacts
- Videos
- Transcripts
- Chats
- **Groundswell: Sales and Marketing**

## Challenges
- Presenting org structure to people... doesn't make sense...
- Why stewardship based organizations...
- Why federate them?

## Convincing Pete
- The Right Kind of Process For Unfolding (this)
- The Right Kind of Inspiration
- The Right Kind of Invitation
- The Right Kind of Decentralization
- Almost everything happens in self-governing small groups
- Keep "lionsberg" federal functions to the bare minimum, even "organ system" functions are autonomous groups
- Mosaic... each eventually composed of multiple sovereigns...
- The Right Kind of Autonomy
- Each group is self-governing and autonomous and collaborates on the basis of voluntary consent
- The Right Kind of Federation
- Each individual in the economic federation has a (stake) in Lionsberg as a whole...
- as well as the groups they participate in
- Groups are an array of functions... from discussion, to support, to non-profit, to for-profit, to subsidized blends...
- In phase I
- All individuals federate with Lionsberg so they have a stake in the movement/ network / community / system
- Individuals organize into self-governing groups...
- groups federate with Lionsberg
- In Phase II
- groups start federating with one another around Quests...
- groups start federating into 2nd degree groups of groups to pool resources, risks, profits, etc.
- In each phase - organization and federation are voluntary from the bottom up, with no compelled cooperation...
- The Right Kind of Shared Resources, Services and Support
- Community.LB
- Chat.LB
- Provisionals Structure to support and make groups visible to one another... and matchmaking and weaving...and handle legal and compliance across the array of FP and NP
- Soon
- Backoffice
- Benefits
- Employment and tax headaches
- Community
- Events
- Training / Capacity building
- matchmaking
- stacking up and aligning
- system wide profit sharing
- 30% annually flowing to participants
- 10% to doing good beyond the system...
- nuanced investment strategy to grow the system, properly distributed from safe bets, startups, and moon shots
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- The Right Kind of Voluntary Tithe / Taxation to pay for community / movement / resources / services / support
- For individuals - some kind of voluntary membership contribution
- Goal - reciprocity with no one ecxluded
- For groups - transparent and accountable ~10% of flow
- The Right Kind of Ongoing Consent / Freedom to Exit / Optionality
- All agreements at all levels require ongoing consent
- Individuals and groups are free to leave at any time

## Lessons From Mondragon
- Don't try to build co-ops in isolation - you need a small array to start.
- You will need your own functions - like bank, incubator / accelerator, benefits, logistics, etc. etc.

## An Examples of EMSS and Plex
- Substack for Good
- ability of lots of authors to publish newsletters better and better
- paid subcribers
- adding features to continue to make them stickier, more well marketed...
- existing audience to push content towards -
- Tax -
- Contributors
- selected into the journal
- Art Journal could be NP
- Contributors could pay taxes rather than group
- Cross-marketing between Art Journal and Lionsberg...
- Community in which art journal is known and shared and talked about
- LLM Guild
- helping with formation
- helping with compliance
- access to HR / EE / benefits stuff / small company stuff

## Why Lionsberg
- vs. a PEO...
- vs. (too rosy / too hippy)...
- vs. (don't want to save the world)
- actually training people in new ways of thinking...
- leaving Old patterns behind (Like recovery program)
- Retraining
- people afraid to be caught failing - leading to deception and hiding of issues
- methodologies and training - in essential wisdom, principles and values
- then working out ways to exlore the principles and values in action

## Books

- [The Book of Agreement: 10 Essential Elements for Getting the Results You Want: Stewart Levine](https://www.amazon.com/Book-Agreement-Essential-Elements-Getting/dp/1576751791)
- [Stop Setting Goals If You Would Rather Solve Problems: Bobb Biehl](https://www.amazon.com/Setting-Goals-Would-Rather-Problems/dp/0345395662/)