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01| Decentralization is not a value we hold. It is an instrument we use, and like any instrument it has a range where it works and a range where it does not. We decentralize because decisions made close to the work are faster, better informed and cheaper to make than decisions made three levels away from it. We stop decentralizing at the point where speed or reliability begins to suffer, and we accept less decentralization when that point arrives. There is no ideological floo

01| Three things at IkoCiti are permanent and one is not. The permanent three are divisions, groups and operators. The temporary one is the Circle. Almost every structural mistake an organization makes is a mistake about which category something belongs in, so it is worth being exact before going further. 02| A division is a domain of the platform and a home for the people who work in it. There are ten. Each is led by a Division Leader who sits in the Global Management Team,

01| Here is a question we can now answer precisely, and it is the question that decides whether Peoples' Impact means anything: what does the Global platform actually do? 02| The wrong answer is that it runs the barrios from a distance. Read the register carefully and you find the opposite stated flatly. Of the Barrio Division: no direct barrio work — that's CITI territory. Of PI Production: no direct project work — CITIs produce impact. These are the two divisions whose name

01| Ten divisions, sixty-odd groups. Described one after another they read as a list, and a list conceals the only interesting thing about them, which is that they do not all do the same kind of job. Four kinds, in fact, and once they are separated the shape of the organization becomes legible. 02| Two divisions own a model that somebody else runs. The Barrio Division (4000) owns everything about entering and holding a community — events and talent discovery, the MM360 master

01| The PI Research Division operates under one rule that disqualifies a great deal of interesting work: everything must improve how something else performs. No research for research's sake. A finding that is true, novel and publishable but changes nothing about how a group operates has failed our test, however well it would score against anyone else's. 02| We hold that line for a specific reason. IkoCiti makes a claim — that residents of a barrio can produce measurable socia

01| The platform operates on two levels. At Global, ten divisions build the systems, set the standards, develop the tools and hold the infrastructure. At local level, the CITI turns all of that into something that happens in a street, to real people, with names. If Global is the blueprint, the CITI is the construction site — and only one of those two produces a building. 02| A CITI is not a branch office executing instructions. It is a lean local organization anchored in one

01| Running a CITI is not a management job in the ordinary sense. It is a position held between two things that pull in opposite directions: a global platform with standards to protect, and a local community whose dynamics no handbook fully anticipates. The people who do it well hold both at once, every day, and are rarely thanked for either. 02| Every CITI operates under the IkoCiti Franchise Handbook, which defines the processes, the quality standards, the escalation rules

01| IkoCiti will eventually run many CITIs, in different countries and radically different conditions, and they will not all perform the same. That is not a problem to be managed. It is the most valuable thing the platform produces — provided one condition holds. 02| The condition is that the model does not vary. Every CITI runs the same universal infrastructure: the same template, the same standards, the same rules. Local adaptations exist only on dimensions that are non-ins