The Word Is "organize."

 Sometimes it is about guts

                The word organize is closely related to the word organ. Important meanings for organ include tool, instrument, and implement. Organ can speak of guts as well as it can of a musical instrument. Could that imply that guts are available for the formation of a melodious and harmonious organization!

                The word organ has referred to an implement for doing work. An organization can be a tool for getting things done. To organize can be the process of making a tool to get things done and even to the process of maintaining an organization. So, to organize can be the can be the process of making and maintaining a tool to get things done.

                To organize can be thought of as a derivative of organ and once meant literally to furnish with organs including to do so to form a living being.  So, your organization can be alive and active. And so, your organizing activity could provide your group with a coordinated, coherent structure; might it even be done so as to include guts and music?

                To organize is to cause to develop an organic structure. You may look at your organization and see that it is alive and well! I feel enthusiasm for the doing right now.

                To organize can be to arrange or form into a coherent unit or functioning whole. In governance that unit or whole may consist of lively persons. We can organize to get things done.

                We seem to have a handle on the nature of "to organize," but there is much more about organizing which is worth knowing. 

                We know that organize means to establish organization or an organization. We may consider that there are organizations because there is organizing going on. These days there is a growing interest in the development and maintenance of political, social, and civic organization. This growing interest is developing in many persons new to it. They know that an organization consists of activities and doings by actors and doers. They are developing some ideas as to why it is done and a few ideas as to how it is done. 

              

                 Organization for cooperation may be one of mankind's earliest activities. It is mostly learned by ongoing observation and practice. It benefits greatly from ongoing dialogue. When a number of us are doing something together, Talk of what we are doing; why we are doing it, and how we agree to do it, is important to our success, The quality of that talk is certainly important. 

                    Actors and doers learn and keep abreast of group and individual called for by their dialogue, their observation, and their talk. They learn varied functions which contribute the whole and collective functions. Much is done together. In a democratic organization even more is done together. Persons unite and accept specific responsibilities for an understood purpose. Persons unite for a particular purpose and take on certain responsibilities.

                    An organization is often a more systematize co-operation rather than a less systematized activity, One can observe that organization can be a powerfully effective social tool. We may organize a mechanism for taking care of business and discover that such organization is vital to that business.

                An organizer is one who organizes. In a democratic organization the more complete the participation in organization, the more lasting and powerfully effective that organization often is. The organizers put the guts into the organization. An organizer acts to put life and action into her organization. An organizer activates the process of making your organization a tool for getting things done. When you do not participate in that process you make your organization less democratic and less effective. Your organizing acts to cause your organization to develop a better organic, living structure for doing well.

                An organizer sees his job establishing and maintaining his organization as he and his fellow members have decided.

                For an organization to endure organizing must go on. You may find it useful to use your own initiative from time to time. However, if the organization is to be truly for us it must be truly by us.

                Organization is much about co-operation, so, to organize is much about  helping the members of the group to practice co-operating. We can find or make opportunity to talk about this kind of cooperation. We can learn to improve the way we talk together.

                Thank you for reading, 

Collaborative Self Governance

Collaborative means doing together.

Let's say that we want to co-operate in a effective and satisfying way. To begin listen to this thrice and then review this blogsite. Then consider why so many of us consider that getting closer to the practice of equality is effective and satisfying. Then review your values.

Collaboration and cooperation empower us. Let's consider their effective and satisfying practice. There is a lot of healthy food for thought in this video, view it again. If you are interested in a goal, the one offered in this video is, harmonize people power, and process. An old aunt of mine told me that she was very glad that someone told her that, "It ain't so much about what you do: and it's  a lot more about the way how you do it." Process is important.

    

Consider the simple meaning of governance. Governance is how we collectively organize ourselves to take care of ourselves, Let's consider "how" and begin to practice.

                                                                                        

                                                                                                                Richard

Your New Organization Can Be About Citizenship

 Citizenship and Governance: A Brand New Political Organization.

        Many in the U.S. are considering brand new political organizations for many reasons: a new national party, a coalition, an ad hoc effort to promote a special bill or effort, for social betterment, and on and on. They want organizations capable of working with large numbers of active citizens. They are expecting wider participation in self-governance. They want to do that which effectively furthers their aims right now.

            There is much which needs to be done and many of us to do it. However, just now I will offer a list of hints which may prove helpful to an organizer. 

The hints for civic organization:

~ Be inclusive. Help anyone who wants to be a member, be a member.

~ Keep in mind that teaching one another is important. Outside help can be useful, but that which we do for ourselves is more important. Each a learner, each a teacher.

~ Clarify aims and goals. Restate them often. Better them when you can.

~ Arrange to have each member have opportunities to help in achieving those goals. How will that be done?

~ Arrange to take care of all business promptly. How will it be done.Arrange for the ongoing education of all members. That's education in the skills and understandings necessary to the organization and organizational aims.

~ Make each member an educator. You do not have to use any of these hints; but anyone of them can be very useful.

~ Demonstrate abundant and appropriate trust in each member.

~ The fewer secrets the better and "no secrets" is the best policy.

~ Let each member know that he or she is participating in the creation and nourishing of the organization, its philosophy, and its doings.

~ Lay out clear steps for accomplishing the important doable goals of your organization. 

~ Remember you are not alone. You are part of an organization. laying out, demonstrating, making, and doing are group affairs and  doings. Members want to be active. Let them be active. 

~ It is best that a goal members undertake not only be important and doable, but also ought to be attractive, challenging, and a big deal.

~ Set out a goal or two to be completed today. That is you as in you all set out a goal. You all want your orgainzation to be where the "doings" are.

~ Each member deserves a worthy job he or she can work right now. What a power house an organization can be! Your organization is a big powerful group.

~ Make clarifying the "grand vision" of your organization an ongoing activity. A grand vision for me might be the ongoing practice of active self-governance. or the ongoing practice of participatory democracy.

~ Ends, goals, objectives, aims can all be good. However, to be well done is important and the way it is done can be the most important.  

~ Aim to govern yourselves by practicing active self-governance of the whole. Begin with "how to do" teach-ins.

            May these hints/suggestions help you in your action plans.

We have a lot to learn and a lot to do. It's great that there are a lot of us to help with that learning and doing. 

As That Active Citizen and As a participant in a meeting it is fair and useful to:

~ Show up.

~ Speak up.

~ Name the problem.

~ Team up.

~ Find a partner.

~ Frame the discussion.

            That is: be there; address the group; Clarify the topic; Identify those of like mind; make a friend; listen and learn; sum up what the meeting has been about.

            It all starts with showing up and being there.

            Thank you for reading.

 

 

                                                                  RCS

 

 

What's to Like in an Organization?

 Some of What I like 

I know that organization increases our power enormously. I know that our organization informs and educates us well.

                    We are capable of forgetting the pleasures and satisfactions  of organization. I expect that the pleasures and satisfactions I am recalling just now will not be the same as yours. Still among mine you may find one or two of yours.

                    I have an interest in ad hoc organizations and and those of longer term.

Below are many of my personal likes in organizations. You may find some of your likes listed.

An organization which attracts me often has:

~ members who feel connected, involve, and respected.

~ the motive of helping me and others to thrive.

~ a clear understanding of costs and benefits.

~ members who promote widespread participation and responsibility.

~ members who embrace reality and who are willing to approach the truth.

~ members who value honesty and justice.

~ a mission I find valuable and pleasing.

~ plenty of talk in which all participate.

An organization which pleases me is one which:

~ Keeps me in the information loop.

~ most members feel well connected with leadership.

~ Makes very clear who pays how much and who gets what.

~ moves in the direction of democracy.

~ tends to be inclusive.

~ tends to safeguard that which I value.

~ includes those who study and promote actions good for me and others.

~ advocates and protects people and process important to me.

~ promotes dialogue which leads to appropriate action.

I find an organization congenial when it includes:

~ teaching the process of organizing.

~ the purpose of advocating and protecting me.

~ objectives very like my own.

~ intelligent, respectful, loving ladies.

                I am very interested in hearing of your likes in organizations. I expect to post more about organization and organizing. Dialogue skills are organizational skills for all participants in society.

                Organizing can be a wonderful move toward governance.

                More as soon as I can.

                Thank you for reading. Take some time to explore this site. Well, you are right here!

                                                                                                            RCS

What's to Like in an Organization

  We know that organization increases our power enormously. We know that our organization informs and educates us well.

                    We are capable of forgetting the pleasures and satisfactions  of organization. I expect that the pleasures and satisfactions I am recalling just now will not be the same as yours. Still among mine you may find one or two of yours.

                    I have an interest in ad hoc organizations and and those of longer term.

                Below are many of my personal likes in organizations. You may find some of your likes listed.

An organization which attracts me often has:

~ members who feel connected, involve, and respected.

~ the motive of helping me and others to thrive.

~ a clear understanding of costs and benefits.

~ members who promote widespread participation and responsibility.

~ members who embrace reality and who are willing to approach the truth.

~ members who value honesty and justice.

~ a mission I find valuable and pleasing.

~ plenty of talk in which all participate.

An organization which pleases me is one which:

~ Keeps me in the information loop.

~ most members feel well connected with leadership.

~ Makes very clear who pays how much and who gets what.

~ moves in the direction of democracy.

~ tends to be inclusive.

~ tends to safeguard that which I value.

~ includes those who study and promote actions good for me and others.

~ advocates and protects people and process important to me.

~ promotes dialogue which leads to appropriate action.

I find an organization congenial when it includes:

~ teaching the process of organizing.

~ the purpose of advocating and protecting me.

~ objectives very like my own.

~ intelligent, respectful, loving ladies. (Excuse my honesty, please.)

                I am very interested in hearing of your likes in organizations. I expect to post more about organization and organizing. Dialogue skills are organizational skills for all participants in society.

                Organizing can be a wonderful move toward governance.

                More as soon as I can.

                Thank you for reading. Make some time to do some exploration among the many posts here.

                                                                                                            RCS

This is BIG!

We have a lot to teach each other. Let us get with it. We have a lot to teach one another. Let's get at it. We can take care of ourselves better together. We can govern ourselves for pleasure and profit, fun and freedom, joy and justice. Let's give it a try right now.

                                                                                                                        RCS

The Word is "boycott"

Word Power: The Word is "boycott" 

Irish Origen:

                The Irish Land Wars are the source of the introduction of a powerfully useful word into the English language.

              

                 In 1850 Irish persons formed the Tenant Right League in Ireland to demand reform to the land law of Ireland. It was a law not of democratic origin. This organization and demand was followed by about 40 years of unrest in Ireland as well as to some learning and reform. 
                

                The word in question is the surname of a landlord so disliked by his tenants that he was refused labor to harvest his crops, as well as refusal to service shops, laundries, and other facilities. The social excommunication of Mr. Boycott led to his name being used to describe it. Boycotts have worked well as nonvirulent protest measures. 
                

                Check out the the Home Rule League of Ireland online. Doing so could contribute to your political education. Then go on to check the Irish Land League. Doing so could add to your understanding of political organization. Check out Gandhi  on the use of resistance and organization to achieve social ends. Well reasoned and presented protests have been a powerful social power. The Irish National League may be interesting to check out, but may prove complicated by the source of your information. 
                   

As an educator:

                 Due to my background as an educator I feel the need to add, is that one thing you need to learn is that you are responsible for ruling yourself. In Ireland that has been called Home Rule. It does seem best to begin at home. You can blame your father, wife, mayor, or President, but that, I have found a waste of energy. Where you are concerned you are the authority and the boss, and the doing is yours to do. You will have your results.
               

                 We have a lot to learn about politics and our own history. History is how we learn what works and and what doesn't. It's mostly the experience of others, but we each have our own history. Politics can be called how we cooperate to get doings done.

Understanding and meaning:                    

                A instructive synonym for boycott is ostracize.

                An example of boycotting is the American boycott of  English goods during the American Revolution such as the Boston Tea Party. This was mostly the refusal to accept English goods, especially to buy them.

                So, to boycott, can refer to social or political action to initiate change.

                Boycotting may well thought of as organized and strategic as a campaign to protest by ostracization so as to initiate or maintain change.

                                                                                                RCS
 

Organization: First Notes.

 We know that organization increases our power enormously. We know that our organization informs and educates us well.

                    We are capable of forgetting the pleasures and satisfactions  of organization. I expect that the pleasures and satisfactions I am recalling just now will not be the same as yours. Still among mine you may find one or two of yours.

I have an interest in ad hoc organizations and and those of longer term.

Below are many of my personal likes in organizations. You may find some of your likes listed.

An organization which attracts me often has:

~ members who feel connected, involve, and respected.

~ the motive of helping me and others to thrive.

~ a clear understanding of costs and benefits.

~ members who promote widespread participation and responsibility.

~ members who embrace reality and who are willing to approach the truth.

~ members who value honesty and justice.

~ a mission I find valuable and pleasing.

~ plenty of talk in which all participate.

An organization which pleases me is one which:

~ Keeps me in the information loop.

~ most members feel well connected with leadership.

~ Makes very clear who pays how much and who gets what.

~ moves in the direction of democracy.

~ tends to be inclusive.

~ tends to safeguard that which I value.

~ includes those who study and promote actions good for me and others.

~ advocates and protects people and process important to me.

~ promotes dialogue which leads to appropriate action.

I find an organization congenial when it includes:

~ teaching the process of organizing.

~ the purpose of advocating and protecting me.

~ objectives very like my own.

~ intelligent, respectful, loving ladies.

                I am very interested in hearing  your thoughts on organization. I expect to post more about organization and organizing. Dialogue skills are organizational skills for all participants in society.

                Tell me what congeniality, pleasures, and attraction you would like to find in your organization for self-governance,

                More as soon as I can.

                                                                                                            RCS

Co-operation: vital to governance

 Governance begins with co-operation and ends without co-operation.

Co-operation:              

                        We know what co-operation is and we have some idea of how to do it. It takes some attention and practice. It's working together, sometimes with no boss. For a wise man it is working together for our mutual benefits with the clear awareness that it benefits each of us personally as well. With practice we can make it work for us very well. 

                        C0-operation is an art or craft that nearly all of us know something about. It is a bit like "If you'll scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" So, its a reciprocal process. Even so, there is much that we can learn about it. I believe that we can and should learn more of the use and practice of co-operation.

                        Co-operation can lead us to friendship, trust, brotherhood, and sisterhood to. We learn more about people in co-operation by: working with them, observing them, listening to them, and talking with them. 

                        Co-operation is vital for self-governance. For me self governance is taking care of ourselves. Taking care of one's self is mostly a co-operative affair these days, even though it is still much like being one's own boss. We also do self-governance together with others for our mutual benefit. Governance can be about government and Government with a capital G. Government can be about taking care of our state, city, town, school, or about finding a place to put up a basketball court, planning how to do it, and doing it. Of course doing this kind of governance is best done with co-operation, we work together. In democratic governance the working together can bring especially good effects.

                        Co-operating may be humanities best activities. It is certainly one of our most useful activities. One of our greatest powers as a society is the power to co-operate for our common good. Co-operation is a powerful good and an important step in organization.

                      

Organization:

                        Co-operation can usually includes being supported by those you support or being helped by those you help. It can be long term as in a family, a business, or a county, but it can be short term as in a piece of work for a limited purpose. Organization is very similar.

                        Just knowing something about what co-operation is, gives us a reason to practice it with some gratitude. we know that we can work together for our mutual good. Doing so in a democratic way can be even more satisfying because the individuals so co-operating because of the satisfying feeling of equality. Each co-operator is valued. We know that working together can get us through some tough times. In tough times it can keep us safe. In better times it improves our chances for an abundant life among supportive others. Well organized co-operation can do so even more effectively.

                        Co-operation can be particularly important in hard times and not just at critical moments  or in urgent cases, but in every-day difficult times. Who has live a year with no difficult times. It is sometimes difficult to get through a month in which a little co-operation would have helped. Its a nice feeling that there are people are around to help even when you don't need it. In some tough times some co-operation could have helped me, but I didn't realize what I had to offer. However, over the years men and women have worked out effective and informal ways of getting to better days. We practiced co-operation in clubs, families, unions businesses, towns, cities, counties, and other organizations.

Without co-operation, organization may be impossible:

                        It is especially useful to co-operate well in times of unusually rapid change. Earth changes such as climate change seems to be getting to be that kind of change. It is possible for us to organize to better adapt to Earth changes such as climate change.

Dialogue is necessary for nearly all  good co-operation and organization:

                        Very often I use the word "dialogue" to refer to a special kind of talk. For us, right now, let it just mean good listening and clear talk. We can come to know one another better and to co-operate better. We can greatly improve our chances for effective co-operation by listening to each other better and talking with one another honestly. Listening and talking for meaning and understanding helps us to more effectively co-operate. Our ongoing dialogue is important.

                        For a higher level of co-operation, a more effective mode of communication is very useful. Face to face dialogue is an example of a mode of communication. I such dialogue we listen for meaning and understanding. We often benefit greatly from learning to co-operate with persons very different from ourselves. We come to listen more effectively for their meanings and their understandings. Their life experience is likely to have been significantly different from ours so they may have learned a point of view different from ours. Its that better listening leads to better co-operation and more effective organization. We can practice better listening. As we know, we can better co-operate by informing and being informed so as to come to necessary understandings. 

Practices which can aid co-operation, governance, dialogue, and effective organization:

Good practices include:

~ sharing leadership.

~  offering suggestions rather than commands.

~ showing gratitude, praise, and respect for co-operation which effectively moves us closer to achieving our common goals.

~ doing useful work. 

~ appreciating the import of our common efforts and aims.

~ sharing our understanding of our common benefits.

~ trying to really understand the problem.

~ trying to understand the other guy's ideas.

~ explaining the reasons for requests and rules.

~ taking turns talking, listening, waiting, leading, getting things done.

~ practicing participation.

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