A deep dive into how DAOs work together: how to guide and motivate people to work for DAOs?

This is the second article in the PAKA DAO series. In the previous article, our discussion on DAO revolved around Token and governance, and this article will focus on people and collaboration. We will answer the following questions:

1. What is the organizational structure of DAO?

2. How DAOs work and how members coordinate

3. According to the level of participation, what are the different contributors in the DAO

4. How DAOs guide and motivate people to work for DAOs

Each DAO has its own business model and strategic goals, according to which we can divide DAOs into several categories:

There are Venture DAO and NFT DAO that focus on investment and pursuit of financial returns, Grant DAO for distributing funds, Protocol DAO for managing agreements and pursuing public services within reasonable profits, and dedicated to serving members and creating for members Social DAO (or club-style DAO) of social opportunities.

We can take an overview of the DAO ecology through the following figure:

DAO

*This image is modified and updated based on the DAO Landscape made by @Cooopahtroopa

No matter what form of DAO it is, in order to achieve any goal, it is not enough to have a democratic governance layer, but also a strong executive layer, and someone needs to do things. In terms of the choice of the execution layer, many DAOs choose to rely on a centralized team. This choice has its rationality and efficiency advantages, but it is far from the DAO we expect.

With the development of DAO, a Community DAO with stronger community collaboration attributes, wider business scope, and stronger creativity has emerged. Community DAO also represents the future of DAO. The discussion of DAO's collaboration methods in this paper is basically based on Community DAO. based on.

1. Organizational structure of DAO
To understand a type of organization, we should first start with its organizational structure. As a decentralized organization, what is the structure of DAO? What are the similarities and differences with corporate organizations?

First, a typical DAO will have a core team, or decision-making committee, that is empowered to make decisions on some of the day-to-day affairs of the DAO, thus avoiding endless voting. The community empowers the core team to manage day-to-day affairs, similar in nature to a board of directors appointing CEOs and executives.

The DAO organization will set up several skill groups, also known as Guilds, according to business needs. Each guild gathers people with specific skills who are willing to contribute to the organization. These guilds look like divisions in a corporate organization, but are completely different in nature. Everyone here can decide for themselves what to do, what not to do, what projects to participate in, and what projects not to participate in. We can understand these guilds as the talent pool of the DAO.

The DAO can run multiple projects at the same time, and each project team has multiple members from various guilds. Projects and guilds form a vertical and horizontal structure, which is the organizational structure of DAO, which we can express with the following diagram.