Evolution-Powered

 

Shift your organization from
ego-driven to
evolution-powered.

Give everyone a voice

 

Give everyone a voice...
... without the tyranny of consensus.

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Holacracy™
A new operating system for evolution-powered organizations.

Sense-and-Respond

 

From Predict-and-Control
to Sense-and-Respond.
Holacracy™

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Free your organization from

the shackles of human ego.

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Build an organization

that builds itself.

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Obsoleting Organizational Politics

Despite the implicit nature of our expectations, we often apply them to others as if they were clearly the right thing, and sometimes even wield them over others as a weapon – especially when we’re frustrated.  That is, until we’re the target of someone else’s implicit expectations, and then we cry foul – “that wasn’t clear to me!”  Perhaps we declare the expectations unreasonable, or kick ourselves for not doing better.  And ultimately, what else can we do?  We must expect things of each other to work together effectively.More

A Holacracy™-Powered Legal Structure

One of the exciting things to me about working in HolacracyOne (the organization behind Holacracy™) is that we eat our own dog food, as the idiom goes – we use Holacracy™ to organize the company.  Last year we took a major step forward in this regard – we adopted the Holacracy™ Constitution in our legal bylaws, and built a novel legal structure for the organization around that foundation.More

The Power of Governance

Typically, power and authority in an organization formally rest with the guy at the top – the CEO, managing director, or whatever label is used.  Theoretically power is delegated from there, however this process is often extremely fuzzy.  More often, most people in the organization have little clarity about who has what authority to make which decisions, at least for many topics.More

The Insanity of the What-by-When

When you agree to take an action, do you also give others a commitment of when you’ll do it by (the so-called “what-by-when”)?  As much as this practice is generally recommended in today’s business world, allow me to offer a contrary view:  This practice has big downsides, and obscures a better way that comes from an altogether different paradigm.More

Holacracy and Beyond