The part about teams may be an inspire for the idea of a productive anarchistic government as well:
Everyone at the table feels like they have the opportunity to speak up, and they all feel like each other is actually listening to them, as demonstrated by the fact that their teammates are sensitive to nonverbal cues.
Another one of our norms is dependability. Dependability is the notion that you tell me to do something, I’m going to get it done, and you can rely on me to get work done. Structure and clarity, actually two things but they sort of relate. Basically the idea is: people should know what everyone’s job is and that should be a shared understanding across the team. Another norm is meaning — that the work should be personally meaningful to every person in the room. And the last thing is impact — that team members need to think and believe that their work matters and actually creates change.
Teams need to believe that their work is important. Teams need to feel that their work is personally meaningful. [Teams] need to clear goals and defined roles. Team members need to know they can depend on one another.
it’s about [always seeking and ]learning new ways to think about possibilities, new ways to think about our capacity for work.
“[Productivity: ]Motivation, focus, goal-setting, decision-making, innovation, absorbing data, managing others, and teams”
What we know is that you can train people to believe that they’re in control of their own life, and more importantly, to get them addicted to that kind of pleasant sensation that kind of comes from being in control.