Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World

The first reading will most likely result in a complete paradigm shift, and you'll gain new insight every single time you reread it, especially when interspersed with actual practice playing the game on a regular basis. People romanticize startup cultures and their lack of structure, but it actually creates tons of anxiety and inefficiency, whether we have to build consensus around every decision, or deal with land grabs for power. In contrast, Holacracy creates clarity: who is in charge of what, and who makes each kind of decision--and there is a system for changing that, so it's very flexible at the same time.” Evan Williams, co-founder of Blogger, Twitter, and Medium“This book reminds me of a book that I must have read 100 t

Holacracy is a revolutionary management system that redefines management and turns everyone into a leader.Holacracy distributes authority and decision-making throughout an organization, and defines people not by hierarchy and titles, but by roles. Holacracy creates organizations that are fast, agile, and that succeed by pursuing their purpose, not following a dated and artificial plan.This isn't anarchy – it's quite the opposite. When you start to follow Holacracy, you learn to create new structures and ways of making decisions that empower the people who know the most about the work you do: your frontline colleagues.Some of the many champions of Holacracy include Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos (author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Delivering Happiness), Evan Williams (co-founder of Blogger, Twitter, and Medium), and David Allen.

Robertson created Holacracy and founded HolacracyOne, the organization that is training people and companies all over the world in this new system. He lives in Philadelphia. Robertson had previously launched a successful software company, where he first introduced the principles that would become Holacracy, making him not just a management theorist, but someone who has success

"Too light on details" according to Justus Pendleton. I came into this via Reinventing Organizations. Though I had heard of Holacracy a bit before, I had never looked into it in much detail. I am predisposed to like this kind of book. I am a manager-of-managers in a high-tech company and I often feel like "there must be a better way".I came awa. Changing Holacracy's Bad Press Mr Michael D Falconer If you live in Las Vegas…Check!Have an interest in management and business issues… Check!And know a number of people in the Downtown / Zappos / entrepreneur community… Check!Then you can’t help but have heard of Holacracy.Normally the tones of conversations about H. and they don’t like it. Most have at least a vague sense Ian Mann Research shows that every time the size of a city doubles, innovation or productivity per resident increases by 15%. When companies get bigger, either their innovation or productivity per employee generally deceases.“In today’s post-industrial world,” author Brian Robertson