Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World

In effectively run organizations, the functional leader is responsible for “who” and “how”—providing trained people who are competent in their profession to be used in sequentialized flows. The flow owner (e.g., project leader, program leader, value stream leader) is responsible for the “what” and “when” of how those people are deployed to achieve

there is little possibility of achieving constructive, sustained governance with existing concepts of organization. People everywhere are growing desperate for renewed sense of community.

Self-organization is the life force of the world, thriving on the edge of chaos with just enough order to funnel its energy, but not so much as to slow down adaptation and learning.

Here is the part many people find tricky to grasp at first: from an Evolutionary-Teal perspective, it’s not about what you think the organization shouldbe or shoulddo (this is how we are used to thinking about it in the machine paradigm, because a machine must be instructed what to do). Instead, it’s all about you and your colleagues getting a sens