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In the absence of RepLink ... #318

Closed benoitpointet closed 5 years ago

benoitpointet commented 5 years ago

Sorry for thinking in 4.1 terms here:

I'd like Holacracy to have a rule to solve absences of Rep Links.

Take the example of grouping roles in a new circle. This new circle has a default LL: the LL of the outer-circle. The organisational change hasn't interrupted to top-down chain of information. Yet this new circle has no RepLink and thus the bottom-up chain is broken. This gives a power to the LL role it should not have, since it now is the only channel to the outer-circle.

Possibilities:

brianjrobertson commented 5 years ago

I'm not clear why this is an issue; why can't someone just call for an election of a rep link and then use that pathway?

benoitpointet commented 5 years ago

Damn. 2.5.4.d solves the case: "the first Core Circle Member of the Circle to declare he or she is acting as the surrogate".

brianjrobertson commented 5 years ago

That's in v4.1; in v5.0, the surrogate section you're referring to is specifically/only for Facilitator and Secretary.

benoitpointet commented 5 years ago

Why having removed it?

brianjrobertson commented 5 years ago

Because other changes in v5 mean some circles won't want Rep Links (like a circle for a multi-filled role that barely does much), and it's not needed: you need a surrogate for Secretary & Facilitator power to make the meeting work to elect someone else; but for Rep Link, you can just run an election when you need to, and there's never a tactical need for one to make a meeting work.