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Decentralising leadership

Transforming Governance

Joseph Handley / 11-June-2025

Translocal Futures: Michel Bauwens and the Polycentric Transformation of Governance

BY JOSEPH W. HANDLEY, Jr. As our world navigates civilizational disintegration—where nation-states strain under the pressure of global systems and capitalism fails to integrate emerging realities—new models of leadership and governance are emerging. Among the most provocative voices in this arena is Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation, who offers a hopeful, decentralized alternative grounded […]

Polycentric Leadership / 25-August-2023

Web3 and Polycentric Governance

Web3 treasuries and polycentric governance

Blockchain communities need to embrace more tools for polycentric governance

Governing the many billions of dollars of digital assets in web3 treasuries is hard. 

How big should your treasury be? Should you diversify? Who makes decisions? Who executes decisions? What do good decisions look like?

My aim in this piece is to argue that treasuries should embrace polycentric governance to solve these problems. And we need better [decentralised autonomous organisation] DAO tools to facilitate that polycentric innovation.

Polycentric Leadership / 21-July-2022

Decentralising leadership: from monolithic to modular and polycentric

GUEST POST BY DANIEL OSPINA Original article at RnDAO Why talk about leadership? Let’s bring it back to the people. If you’ve ever been in an executive position, been an influential DAO member, or founded a new organisation, you’ll likely viscerally know the weight of responsibility. There can be so much work, so much uncertainty […]

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