
Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World

Try listening to what best suits the organization’s needs. Perhaps purpose needs to be explored first, because once all colleagues resonate with it, they will have energy for self-management and wholeness. Maybe the right thing to do is to start with wholeness, as a way to build sufficient trust and community for people to accept change in the othe
... See moreFrédéric Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Self-management, just like the traditional pyramidal model it replaces, works with an interlocking set of structures, processes, and practices; these inform how teams are set up, how decisions get made, how roles are defined and distributed, how salaries are set, how people are recruited or dismissed, and so on.
Frédéric Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
To get going with Holacracy, you need to define a starting structure of nested circles, and you must determine a switch day where the new structure, practices, and processes take effect and the old cease to exist (typically the day the organization’s founder or CEO adopts Holacracy’s constitution). The starting structure doesn’t need to be perfect
... See moreFrédéric Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Moreover, since structure in human systems includes the “operating policies” of the decision makers in the system, redesigning our own decision making redesigns the system structure.