Description:
Many Voices One Song is a manual for implementing an egalitarian form of governance known as sociocracy or dynamic governance. The book includes descriptions for structuring organizations, making decisions by consent, and generating feedback.
Brief description: Ted is an advocate, trainer and consultant for self-governance. His main focus is sociocracy. After his PhD in linguistics and work in Academia, he co-founded the membership organization Sociocracy For All in 2016. Ted spends his days consulting with mission-driven organizations, teaching and deeply immersed in the work as a member within Sociocracy For All. Ted has 5 children who are now teens and young adults. A German citizen, he lives between Massachusetts and Tübingen. He is (co)-author of four books on self-governance, Many Voices One Song (2018), Who Decides Who Decides (2021), Collective Power (2023), and From Here To There (2025). He is working on a book on the interface between governance, the deep code of modernity, and wisdom.
Review Quotes:
"Finally a handbook for Sociocracy! The handbook is detailed, practical, full of examples and insights from experience. A wonderful contribution to people striving for better workplaces and communities." Frederic Laloux, author of Reinventing Organizations.
"This is a very important book. Many people will find its specific guidance very useful as they start using sociocracy to make their organization more nimble, adaptive and humane." John Buck.
"I appreciate the warm and kindly tone, clear graphics demonstrating many possible configurations of linked circles, and sheer comprehensive coverage of the topic in Many Voices One Song. The authors include valuable field-tested tips using sociocracy, drawn from their personal experiences. I highly recommend this book for existing and forming communities using or considering using sociocracy".- Diana Leafe Christian.