Explore Holacracy
Holacracy is a new way of structuring and running your organization that replaces conventional management. Power is distributed throughout a concrete organizational structure – giving individuals and teams freedom while staying aligned to the organization’s purpose.
Purposeful.
What if your whole organization could easily stay aligned around its mission?
Holacracy makes this possible by putting a focus on purpose at every level: organizational purpose, team purpose, and individual purpose are all explicit and aligned.
Responsive.
Does your organization struggle to react quickly to external and internal shifts?
Holacracy empowers everyone to act as a sensor for the organization. It provides clear pathways to turn challenges into opportunities for improvement.
Clear.
Are you tired of playing guessing games and office politics?
Holacracy practice enables clear expectations and creates transparent authority at every level. Hidden power dynamics get surfaced and resolved. Everyone is bound by the same rules.
Dynamic.
When was the last time a static job description reflected the real work getting done?
Dynamic roles are built into the Holacracy framework. One conventional job title is a dozen discrete roles. You can scale efficiently, streamlining work and maintaining clear ownership.
Modular.
Don’t want to go all-in at once?
With Holacracy Constitution 5.0, you have the option of adopting the practice at your own pace. You and your colleagues can focus on the new habits and ways of working in discrete modules by enacting single articles of the Constitution.
“We have an organization with 50 people – we have 300+ roles now – and still people can just find the right person for something on their first day. That’s magic.”
– Ruben Timmerman, Founder of Springest
No bosses. All leaders.
The conventional way of managing leads to constant bottlenecks. The people at the top rungs of the hierarchy dole out permission for actions big and small. This simple structure slows down the work, stifles creativity, and destroys engagement. It causes constant harm, but we hardly even notice it because it’s the normal way of business.
Holacracy practice turns this around by allowing for a clear organizational structure and providing a concrete set of rules for everyone. It’s incredibly empowering for everyone. The constant permission-seeking stops. All employees get to know their own authority and engage as leaders of their work.
“That’s what I really love about Holacracy. These are organizations where everyone can become powerful, everyone can become entrepreneurial, in service of some larger purpose.”
Working ON the Team
The Governance module introduces a process through which every team member can alter the company’s structure and organization-specific rules.
Everyone acts as a sensor for the organization. Notice something that could be better? Instead of being stuck with problems with the structure and rules of your company, you can fix them. The governance process has pathways and rules for safely solving those problems without waiting on a boss to do it for you.
Large-scale re-orgs are disruptive. But small, incremental changes allow for continuous improvement. Introducing the Governance module helps your company respond quickly to a shifting environment and maintain agility as you grow.
“In Holacracy, you see groups making proposals to revise the design of their group and of the broader organization. They’re making decisions that a typical organization—a hierarchical organization—only make at the management and senior management level.”
Everyone Follows the Same Rules
Holacracy replaces the management hierarchy with a way of operating that sets clear expectations and creates transparent authority at every level in the organization.
This reduces inefficiencies and undercuts hidden power dynamics throughout your organization.
“The structure allows you freedom. Much like the structure in the roads… If it’s an appropriate structure, it allows you to think about other things while you drive.”
Transparency for All
Static job descriptions and corporate titles become dynamic roles and responsibilities that are transparent and evolve as the organization changes.
This clarity helps organizations scale while streamlining work and maintaining clear ownership.
“In the old world, titles and the word ‘manager’ implied certain authorities and accountabilities for each person. In the new world, under Holacracy, the list of accountabilities is listed explicitly for each role.”
Introductory Events
The best way to explore Holacracy is to start experiencing it for yourself. Holacracy Providers regularly host webinars and workshops (in-person and virtual) where you can get a no-commitment sense of what the management practice can do for your organization.
Holacracy Intro Webinar in English
Recorded • HolacracyOne
Join a global community of practice.
If you’re considering adopting Holacracy, you’re already part of our tribe of organizational pioneers. The Holacracy Community of Practice is the place to connect online with people like yourself who are searching for a better way to work.
Online learning for your whole organization.
Holacracy Resources offers a library of free and affordable educational content. From guides to online courses, you’ll find resources to help you bootstrap an adoption, supplement training and coaching, or onboard new hires to Holacracy practice.
Your Partners in Change Management
Certified Holacracy Coaches and licensed Providers help your organization make the leap from conventional management to Holacracy. We offer totally customized solutions to fit both your organization and your budget.