🧩 WoW OS: Ways of Working Operating System

Welcome to the WoW OS content repository — a structured, open library of methods, practices, and challenges that support the design of future-fit collaboration.

This repo contains the foundational Elements, Challenges, Playbooks, and Collections that make up the Ways of Working Operating System (WoW OS).

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📁 What You'll Find Here

content/

Organized into folders by type:

• element/
  • Real-time collaboration → Structured interactions like zero-to-five-check
• challenge/
  • Problems → Like unspoken-misalignment
  • Goals → Like inclusive-alignment-culture

Each content folder includes:

• index.yaml — structured metadata
• A [category]-details.md file — the main content
• Optional supporting files — diagrams, PDFs, etc.

templates/

Copy-and-fill folders for each type:

• structured-interaction-template-COPY ME/
• problem-template-COPY ME/
• goal-template-COPY ME/

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🧠 What is WoW OS?

WoW OS is a modular, open-source system for designing how organizations collaborate.
Our goal is to help teams and leaders improve their collaborative ecosystems using reusable Elements, actionable Playbooks, and well-defined Challenges.

You can:

• Combine Elements to fit your team’s context
• Use Playbooks to apply practices to real work
• Explore Challenges to identify what needs fixing

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✅ How to Contribute

1. Go to the templates/ folder.
2. Copy the folder for the type of content you want to add.
3. Rename the new folder using the item's id.
4. Fill in the index.yaml and [category]-details.md file.
5. Add any extras (PDFs, diagrams, etc.) and list them in the YAML.
6. Commit your work and open a Pull Request — or let us know it’s ready to review.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for step-by-step instructions.

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🔍 Who Is This For?

This project is for facilitators, designers, consultants, researchers, and team leaders
who want to shape how people work together — and make it easier for others to do the same.

Thanks for being part of it.