When any group of people comes together to accomplish a specific task or mission, such questions come up. Even if we don’t discuss them, we make assumptions about the answers. Just watch a group of children playing a game: implicit governance defines the rules, roles, and parameters within which they play. In many situations, implicit governance works just fine—until, for some reason, it doesn’t work anymore. Perhaps implicit assumptions conflict, or perhaps someone wants to evolve the historically operating norm to integrate some new learning. Whenever there’s a need to align or evolve
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