Belonging

In his piece, The Beautiful Trap of Belonging, Richard Bartlett talks about how communities form from the experience of belonging. Intrinsic to belonging is the absence of status differences. Peter Block also talks about this when he says that nimble organizations are those where people share power, knowledge and responsibility. This is in contrast to slow organizations where power is divided into two classes of haves and have-nots.

One of the practical ways to get around status differences is rotating positions of what is typically called leadership. This is the rotation of common decisions, interactions outside the team and facilitating team meetings and projects. Empower, knowledge and responsibilities shared people feel sense of belonging and in doing so are able to show up with their best.