Gerard Endenburg

Gerard Endenburg ( born 1933 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch entrepreneur and author who was a major influence on the implementation of a form of sociocracy.

Life

Endenburg went into the Werkplaats Kindergemeenschap in Bilthoven to school, where he was a pupil of Kees Boeke.

After studying engineering, military service and entering the profession at Philips as a developer Endenburg 1968 took a job in the parental electrical engineering company, which he later led. His parents had founded the company shortly after the Second World War and regarded it as an opportunity to put their ideas to management and industrial reform. He turned there then its governance model, which sociocratic county organization method. He built it on Boekes idea sociocracy, a participatory organization method based on self-organization based on the principle of Consent.

Consent stands for consent or approval, not for consensus within the meaning of ( general ) unanimity. In this model, the absence of argumentative technologically based objections is the basis for decision making. The model specifies only that no serious and argumentierter objection exists; majority also agreed or authoritarian decisions are possible, provided that the method of decision has been selected with Consent. Other authors is rather spoken instead of "on Consent -based decision-making " by " decision by integrative emergence" to highlight the process of integrating multiple perspectives in a greater whole.

In 1978, Endenburg the Sociocratisch Centrum Nederland. He has published several books on the subject sociocracy and received his doctorate in 1992 on this subject in Delft.

After completing his doctorate, he headed further the Sociocratisch Centrum Nederland. Since 1998 he has taught in addition to the Faculteit the Economische en Wetenschappen Bedrijfskunde at the University of Maastricht.