The Seven Practices: at a glance

How do we begin breaking of our business as usual?

To transform how we work, we have to try things we haven't before. The seven practices are a framework to cultivate economic imagination, contributing to and building on visions of collaborators.

They're a start on reimagining of work. Learn about the research that identified these practices.

The Seven Practices Defined

  • Share Decision-Making Power

    Operating as peers across teams and groups - trusting one another to hold creative decision-making authority, impart insight, and share the risks and returns of our work together.

  • Prioritize Relationships

    Dedicating time and care to connect as human beings in our everyday interactions with team members and people in the broader community whom our work affects.

  • Reckon With History

    Creating intentional time, space, and processes to unpack and address the past in ways relevant to the work at hand.

  • Seek Difference

    Refusing to accept business-as-usual assumptions about who should be at the table and cultivating multiple, meaningful forms of diversity among our groups.

  • Source From Multiple Ways of Knowing

    Considering, valuing, and attuning to multiple types of knowledge, ranging from technical training to lived experience to spirituality to what we sense from the living world.

  • Trust There is Time

    Choosing to believe that there is always time available to prioritize authentic connection, reflection, and care in how we work – including through following these practices.

  • Prototype Early & Often

    Sharing and testing ideas at each step of a process, and deciding together what best next steps to take from what we learn.