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Alexis Gonzales-Black is a principal designer at IDEO.

• Holacracy - One kind of self-organization practice. Distribute authority into the hands of those that are doing the work.
• Series of circles that are self-running startups or businesses.
• Put the organization’s purpose above your own ego.
• Shift to Holacracy can be challenging.
• What are the self-advocacy skills that people need to be able to be successful?
• Where do you have influence over these structures?
• Managing ourselves in a really interactive way.
• We build stories around what might happen if we take a step out of our comfort zone.
• The story you tell yourself is so important. Storylines
• We’re never going to get it right!
• We are a flawed species and we need to give people the ability to try new things.
• Allow tension to happen. Tension is inevitable.
• Own your tension and be the one who is responsible for resolving that.
• My job as a self-manager is to deal with that.
• Our job title becomes a uniform we can’t take off, rather than being a value we bring to the school
• What do others expect of me?
• What do others need of me?
• What are some of the roles that I can offload to someone else?
• Role Marketplace - bring your roles to the marketplace and share the load!
• The workforce increasingly wants autonomy, mastery, and purpose
• Flexible approaches to budgeting and staff assignment.
• People points.
• It’s holding us back from experimenting, where we definitely need experimentation.
• How to be a transformative principal? Take one piece of yourself and offer it to someone else.

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