If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together, if you want to go nowhere start a DAO

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@willblackburn

1. Failure of Focus
   Many DAOs fail with a lack of focus and clear understanding by all participants of what the DAO is looking to accomplish.To Solve - Develop a clear understand of our goals and ensure all members are working to accomplish those goals. We are working to do this now.

I was just writing a note on the mission, values and goals thread to say that I feel we’re need a few tangible outcomes for the DAO to focus on, this is what I was alluding to with the mention of flagship projects in Season 0 proposal.

I’m not 100% sure we need to commit to be a type of DAO but I feel strongly we need to agree some specific outcomes we’re going to produce and rally to the community around them. My gut feeling is we focus on education/learning and maybe jobs first as this is very achievable and we can do that (build a knowledge-base, learning paths, events, job board etc.) whilst we work out other areas we want to focus on like having a Service DAO arm.

@willblackburn

3. Wide but Not Deep, or How to Drown
   DAO resources spread out into many areas reducing the impact we can make. This is especially bad if there is a lack of focus (#1), but note that you can spread thin at the project level even with a clear overall objective. This happens when leadership and DAO members are afraid to say No. A relevant startup saying is, “Startups do not starve, they drown.” By saying yes to everything, resources thin and nothing is accomplished.

To Solve - Utilize our season structure to be willing to say No or Not Right Now to project ideas. Setup an icebox/backlog of project ideas we can review before each season.

I think is also important. Largely this could be address with FOCUS but I do think it’s important we’re explicit about the projects the DAO is behind. I like the idea of having backlog of projects too, plus we can always support community members projects if they are not ultimately “DAO Projects”

@willblackburn

Poor Incentive Structure
Rewards and recognization does not incentivize the accomplishment of our goals & objectives. This can happen when there is a lack of focus or understanding of our DAO Type. It can also happen when poor systems are put in place at the beginning of a DAO and the system cannot be easily flexed to incentivize the correct actions.

To Solve - Move slowly when determining DAO incentives and token mechanics that will not be easily changed. Ensure focus and goals are set. Ensure the reward mechanism is incentivizing those items being accomplished.

Also agree this is v important. Am working on a proposal at the moment re how we structure the DAO and the roles within it, if we can come to a consensus on this as a community it would give us a good foundation for figuring out this problem.