Swarmwise: The Tactical Manual to Changing the World
Rick Falkvinge
Swarmwise: The Tactical Manual to Changing the World
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Somewhere today, a loose-knit group of activists who are having fun is dropkicking a rich, established organization so hard they are making heads spin. Rich and resourceful organizations are used to living by the golden rule — “those with the gold make the rules.” New ways of organizing go beyond just breaking the old rules into downright shredding them — leaving executives in the dust, wondering how that band of poor, ragtag, disorganized activists could possibly have beaten their rich, well-structured organization.



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Language
English
ISBN
1463533152
Front Cover
Table of Contents
PART I: Building the Swarm
1. Understanding the Swarm
The Swarm is Open...
...and Transparent
So You Have a Provocative Idea?
2. Launching Your Swarm
Surviving the Initial Impact
The Swarm's First Task
Dealing With Attention Junkies
3. Getting Your Swarm Organized: Herding Cats
The Three Magic Group Sizes
Self-Organization
Org Charts and Organic Growth
Meetings as Heartbeats
Meetings Gone Overboard
A Culture of Leadership and Trust
4. Control the Vision, but Never the Message
You Do the Vision, The Swarm Does the Talking
Help the Swarm Remix the Message
Take To The Streets
Scale Out, Out, Out
PART II: Leading the Swarm
5. Keep Everybody's Eyes on Target, and Paint It Red Daily
Project Management and Self-Organization
Draw the Timeline for All to See
Setting Visible, Activating, and Inclusive Goals
Different Leadership Styles
6. Screw Democracy, We're on a Mission From God
Meritocracy and the Law Of Two Feet
Empowering Like Crazy for Fun And Profit
Mistakes Allowed Here
The Magic of the Consensus Circle
Organizational Astronauts
Dividing Scarce Resources
Rewarding People
Tampering with the Goal of the Swarm
Meetings Revisited
Dealing with Mavericks
7. Surviving Growth Unlike Anything the MBAs Have Seen
Broadcasting and Maintaining Values
Decentralized Leadership, Empty Boxes
Grow With Having Fun
Grinding, Grinding, Grinding
Maintain One Value Set, One Value Base
Seriously, One Power Base
PART III: Delivering with the Swarm
8. Using Social Dynamics to their Full Potential
Social Links
Growing on the Edges
Heartbeat Messages
Understanding the Activation Ladder
Mobilizing Activists
Calls to Arms: Perception is Reality
More Ways to Trick Perception
Respecting Anonymity
Rewarding the Long Tail
Using Attention to Build a Community
9. Managing Oldmedia
Owning Your Issue in Oldmedia
Media Breakthroughs
The Gandhi Scale is Accurate
Who Writes the Press Release?
Avatar Faces of the Swarm
Getting Face Time: Be Where Cameras Are
Scoring Those Op-Eds
Set Up a Press Center
10. Beyond Success
The Day After Success
Going International
Don't Shoot For The Moon
Final Words
Appendices Etc.
Workshops and Keynotes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author (Back Cover)
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