A podcast for business owners who know there has to be a better way.
We’re Janel and Anna, small business owners learning in public as we turn our company, Strange Birds, into a worker-owned co-op.
Each episode, we talk with the people reshaping the future of work: co-op founders, movement builders, legal advocates, and small biz owners stubborn enough to believe work can actually work for us.
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A podcast for business owners who know there has to be a better way.
We’re Janel and Anna, small business owners learning in public as we turn our company, Strange Birds, into a worker-owned co-op.
Each episode, we talk with the people reshaping the future of work: co-op founders, movement builders, legal advocates, and small biz owners stubborn enough to believe work can actually work for us.
#05 How we make difficult decisions: A business framework
Flying the Coop
13 minutes 10 seconds
4 weeks ago
#05 How we make difficult decisions: A business framework
Oh hey, a mini-episode on how we do business differently at Strange Birds!
This decision-making framework works magic because:
It invites you to rep the viewpoint of the other person
It transforms the conflict from you vs me to us vs the problem
It clarifies the difference between a principled objection and a preference
It kicks things off and wraps things up with [brief] feelings
It's inspired by the Quaker model of consensus. We met at a Quaker uni (Earlham College) way back in the day. Despite neither of us being Quaker, the way we structure our co-op is heavily influenced by the (very smart) way they make group decisions. Get yerself a ready-to-roll version of this decision-making framework here: https://strangebirds.kit.com/decision-making-frameworkIf you take it for a spin, please please please let us know how it goes!! We're super curious if it helps you make your way through tricky biz conversations.
Flying the Coop
A podcast for business owners who know there has to be a better way.
We’re Janel and Anna, small business owners learning in public as we turn our company, Strange Birds, into a worker-owned co-op.
Each episode, we talk with the people reshaping the future of work: co-op founders, movement builders, legal advocates, and small biz owners stubborn enough to believe work can actually work for us.
