Origins of Self Organizing Organizations—Agile, Holacracy, DAOs—My Thoughts and Philosophy

Agile leaders need the courage to view issues from different perspectives, to gather data without undue prejudice, to formulate both/and rather than either/or resolutions. Too few organizations make it past what we have labeled “prescriptive agility,” which should be an oxymoron, but unfortunately isn’t. These organizations are as rigid about their

Twenty-first-century organizations don’t manage by monologues solemnly intoned from the inside out and the top down. They manage through dialogue that starts from the outside in and the bottom up. By democratizing decision making in a multitude of ways, constructive capitalists are able to allocate resources with maximum agility.

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.