He put maximum power in the local institutions. Hock recently created The Chaordic Alliance, a global institution, to develop and implement new, more effective, and equitable concepts of commercial, political and social organization. The Alliance includes several groups, from The Appleseed Foundation, a group of Harvard lawyers to a commercial fisherman's group in New England. And Hock is devoting the rest of his life to furthering his work and acting as a prophet of the Chaordic Alliance. He recently talked about his ideas with Business Ethics from his ranch outside of San Francisco, California.
Every institution exists only in the mind.
Each is a manifestation of a very old idea called community. Therefore, their reality has more to do with the clarity of shared purpose and principles than with management techniques, resources, and assets. Without the minds and hearts of people, institutions would go dormant, and all assets would rust away. Institutions should enable people but at present, they are disabling. The truth is that most people are spending most of their energy and ingenuity circumventing the organization of which they are a part.