This guide is intended to get you started with self-management with the Holacracy framework. The first step is to capture the Holacracy-style roles and circles that account for how you are currently organized — the Kickstart Guide focuses primarily on this critical step.
It’s a concrete and practical how-to guide with simple explanations and loads of examples.
In this section, we’ll explain some of Holacracy’s basic terminology, as well as provide a broad view of how initial structuring works. Part 3 will cover the specific concrete steps, as well as provide lots of advice and pitfalls to avoid.
While the potential of self-organization and distributed authority are no doubt seductive, the exciting journey begins with the seemingly mundane task of clarifying how things currently work. The roughest winds require the firmest roots, so it is to the roots we must first look.
Holacracy Kickstart Guide, page 13
