Leveraging distributed leadership for Changemaking The story of

Simone Cicero Ouishare Connector @meedabyte

Changemakers

Changemakers

Change?

Finding new solutions

Confrontation & collaboration

Everything started with one person, one blog, one #hashtag

then early followers gathered

The first follower is what transforms a

lone nut into a leader

DEREK SIVERS

then more people got involved and met in real life

then we picked a cool name

we had (international) confrontation in real life

Paris, 1st OuiShare Summit

human interactions started to be again part of the picture

…an open, global, distributed community of passionate people (entrepreneurs, designers, makers, researchers, public officials, citizens and many others) working to accelerate the shift toward a more collaborative economy

a shared mission encompassing our points of view

Openness Transparency Independence Impact MeetPople InRealLife Action PermanentBeta Feedback Inclusion Play

a value manifesto?

…more confrontation in real life

Rome, 2nd OuiShare Summit

Paris, OuiShare Fest, 2nd-4th May

at the end we became stewards of a movement

OuiShare Fest – Paris, May 2-4 2013 the first major european event about the collaborative economy

2 conference days : 700 attendees, 25 countries 1 open day : 3 500 attendees from Paris

150 speakers, 10 satellite events, various activities

3 Summits 100+ OuiShare Events 2 Continental Tours (LATAM/Europe) 1 Global Conference In more than 25 cities from France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, UK, Netherlands, Syria, Brasil, Argentina, Chile, etc.

Since July 2012 240+ articles (FR/EN/ES) 60+ contributors 30.000 unique visitors/month Almost 10K Facebook fans Almost 6K Twitter followers

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Think tank = unique deep insights on collaborative economy

70+ Online FB Groups • Local groups to activate cities/regions • Transversal language groups in English

(Global), French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and German.

• Thematic groups to deep dive on a topic • Project based groups (video, labs, fest, etc.) • Organizational groups (connectors, core

team etc.)

Grouping 1500+ contributors from more than 20 countries mostly in Europe and LATAM

► community building ► think tank knowledge production

► do thank project incubator

…

► services (structuring)

ouishare today

How (the hell) we did it

Stigmergy Individual autonomy and

freedom to create regardless of acceptance or rejection by

the group.

Hierarchical group

controlled by an individual

Consensus individuals

controlled by the group

Empowerment vs. Control:

just f*****g do it

Barcelona, 3rd OuiShare Summit

Challenge: building an inclusive, sustainable organization

Bruxelles, 4th OuiShare Summit

OBJECTIVES: define the legal structure, validate open governance, value accounting & compensation schema Building a new model for collaborative value making

That’s what we learnt about change

Change is about connecting

OuiShare Connectors

Change is P2P

Change becomes exponential when you

do that impact

Changemaking is about leveraging

networks and

communities

is about Purpose and

Contributions, not (only) budgets

Inspired by simbyosi.com

5 Pillars

Find your North

Star

Be loyal to a shared mission

(in permanent beta) Today’s newbies

are more than yesterday’s core

members

Push for transparency

and clarity

Full disclosure and understanding of processes is key

Clarity enables participation and

help overcome exploitation

concerns

Seek equity and

solidarity

Bonds grow in equity and peer to peer

solidarity You must create something more

than a work relationship

Enable distributed leadership

A do-first attitude

Top-bottom management should leave room to

consensus and self directed actions,

independence & emancipation

Build on Trust and

Reputation

Relations drive initiative

Trust and reputation are key enablers of a distributed

and collaborative decision making

process: leaders emerge if organizations

run on trust

Special Thanks: - Albert Canigueral - Benjamin Tincq - Arthur DeGrave

Thank you! Simone Cicero @meedabyte