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Proposed housing law threatens long-term stability of Quebec co-ops, advocates say
Heidi Miller, who has lived in a Montreal co-op for 20 years, warns income caps will evict stable members and destroy the co-op self-management model.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/co-ops-quebec-bill-20-9.7150818?cmp=rss

Infoladen Scherer 8 2d ago

There are ways of life outside of colonization, but politics is not one of them.

All politics is a colonialist instrument, because politics concerns the management of other people's lives. Politics is not self-management. Politics is produced by a group that considers itself enlightened and that, therefore, must be the protagonist in the lives of others.

Democracy is an eminently human thing. Other beings, other living things in the world, do not exercise this movement. They don't have lives like that. Cows, pigs, chickens, birds don't have this management structure. Their management is different.

Only humans have this structure in which one lives to manage the life of another vertically, to defend the rights of others. Among other living things, each one defends itself in a segmented way to defend the territory in an integrated way. A person, however, wants to govern 200 million other people. How could this person do it, if they don't even know two thousand people? How to govern those you don't know?

Within the animal kingdom, politics only exists in the human species. In other species, there is self-management.

Antonio Bispo dos Santos (2025) "We are sharing beings". Meiocerto edições

#selfmanagement #anticolonialism #confluence

Muir Mar 27

What is the pathway to workers having a real say in the workplace?
The alternative production LUCAS PLAN in Britain in the 1970’s proposed greater workers’ control at the Birmingham Aerospace plant. Colin Redmond argues that it has something to say to us today.
#WorkersMovement #WorkersRights #socialism #cooperatives #selfmanagement #workplacedemocracy
https://rebelnews.ie/2026/03/23/what-is-the-pathway-to-workers-having-a-real-say-in-the-workplace/

What is the pathway to workers having a real say in the workplace? - REBEL

The Lucas Plan: As a Worker’s Alternative Strategy “There cannot be industrial…

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Sociocracy For All Mar 9

Those who like to (or have to) plan ahead with more lead time: we just listed our #sociocracy Academy cohort times for fall 2026.
Our flagship training begins on Sept 8 - in 2 cohorts at different times of day to cover all time zones.

https://www.sociocracyforall.org/academy/ #selfmanagement #leadership

Jan R. Boehnke Mar 2

In our new paper we were synthesised primary research into the experiences of adolescents concerning their #diabetes #SelfManagement after participating in a diabetes education program
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26350106261422691

- We only found papers relating to T1DM (and only n=4)

- Experiences split into (i) general experience of self management, and (ii) barriers/facilitators in their environment

- All studies were conducted in Western/ #HIC countries
#LMIC #GlobalHealth

#DundeeUni #NCD #LTC
@AlbertFarre

Richard Griffiths Feb 16

When teams understand why, they don’t need micromanagement.
They need trust.
#SelfManagement #Teamwork #Agile

Jan R. Boehnke Feb 12

🔥 The excitement is rising:

Today is the reveal event for the #RCT results from our DIAMONDS study.
#NIHR #PGfAR

The aim was to develop and test a #SelfManagement programme for people w severe #MentalIllness and type-2 #diabetes; and to explore its relevance to people w SMI and other physical conditions
https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/RP-PG-1016-20003

Read our trial protocol here
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/3/e090295.abstract

and the #ISRCTN registration w statistical analysis plan here:
https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN22275538

#SMI #NCDs #Multimorbidity

Search - NIHR Funding and Awards

Holger Feb 10

Pretty good article on decision making (priority setting) for teams and yourself by Will Larson:
https://lethain.com/frameworks-decision-making/

Will describes how he's taking a more nuanced view on when to prioritize personally motivated activities, mostly to rebuild energy. This culminates in this point: "If the long-term balance between energy and proper priorities can’t be balanced for more than a year, stop everything else and work on solving this (e.g. change your role or quit)."

I can totally relate to this. Company needs can become totally boring and exhausting. In software development, engineers often start using the term "feature factory" to describe the infinite list of deliveries that are due and that eat up all the fun and energy. The same can happen with every role.

And of course, I've seen many good people leave companies because they were in search of something new that would refresh their energy.
#leadership #selfmanagement

Manage your priorities and energy.

Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I worked with: reach the right outcomes by prioritizing the company first, your team second, and yourself third. This “company, team, self” framework proved a helpful decision-making tool, and at the time I felt it almost always led to the correct decision. It also helped me articulate why I disagreed with some of my peers’ decisions, which violated this hierarchy by placing individual or team preferences over the company’s priorities.