Quaker business method seeks collective discernment through listening, silence, clerking, and the sense of the meeting. Its religious commitments distinguish it from secular negotiation among preferences. Borrowed practices may inform organizations, while their meanings and supporting conditions require careful attention during transfer.
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- Category of its source unitGovernance Institutions & Procedures
- DomainGroups & Decisions
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Editorial orientation · Entry type
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Related entries name an idea, effect or practice that belongs to a model or tool of the series. They are not models or tools themselves and are not counted as such; each one leads to the model or tool it comes from, and to its Executive Insight Brief.
Editorial orientation · Category
Governance Institutions & Procedures
Organizes authority, representation, participation, deliberation, collective decision or institutional resolution of conflict. Its contribution concerns who may act, speak, decide or challenge, and under what arrangements.