Holacracy

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Michael Y. Lee on lessons from researching self-managing organisations

...Lisa Gill: Yeah, and I know that your dissertation recently, a big focus of that was holacracy which is obviously a self-management system designed to help create those structures and processes so that we don't slip back into all power hierarch...more
...anagement system designed to help create those structures and processes so that we don't slip back into all power hierarchies. But we'll come back to holacracy in a moment, because I wanted to talk about leadership as well, because I saw that you have been leading a two day program at Harvard on collaborativ...more
...Lisa Gill: Yeah, that's interesting. I want to talk about holacracy and your dissertation particularly which you've just finished, so congratulations. What conclusions did you draw from that and what was it about hola...more
...racy and your dissertation particularly which you've just finished, so congratulations. What conclusions did you draw from that and what was it about holacracy specifically that sparked your interest and made you think, "Oh, yeah, I want to dig more deeply into that particular self-management system"? Michae...more
...ls of decision making, which I think have a place and can be incredibly powerful, but don't really work at scale. And so I think when I learned about holacracy, what really drew me to it was that it was a different approach to self-management than traditional approaches to self-management. And I think that's...more
...here are also I think, as many differences in approaches to self-management as there are similarities. And so I think what was intriguing to me about holacracy was the fact that it was a very different approach that was highly structured. And so what I've learned from my research is that this unique approac...more
...s that, I think, may not have existed before and that don't exist in many organisations. So as an example, in the organisation I studied that adopted holacracy, a new tension arose between individual versus team effort, so that people felt like there was less of an emphasis or an attention paid to the team a...more
...what's right for the customer, it led people to feel like, "okay, we're going to do this because it's right for the customer". But after they adopted holacracy, the feeling was that those cultural values lost salience and lost power in the organisation, because the formal roles really became the kind of prim...more
...ink is one important thing. And I think one of the other insights from my research at a different organisation, where we ran a field experiment using holacracy as the treatment and we were looking at - what is the impact of holacracy on individual work outcomes? And what we found is that it's not a panacea; ...more
...research at a different organisation, where we ran a field experiment using holacracy as the treatment and we were looking at - what is the impact of holacracy on individual work outcomes? And what we found is that it's not a panacea; that actually the average person didn't benefit from the adoption of holac...more
...cracy on individual work outcomes? And what we found is that it's not a panacea; that actually the average person didn't benefit from the adoption of holacracy, but there was a huge degree of variation between individuals; some people really thrived in this structure, and other people really struggled. And s...more
... this tomorrow. You could actually adopt many of these practices tomorrow in your team and organisation without ever calling it 'self-management' or 'holacracy' or anything like that." So I think, not thinking about self-management as this fringe, isolated phenomenon that is irrelevant for the rest of the 99...more

Pasteur Byabeza on transitioning to self-management at Davis College

...Lisa Gill: Pastor, thank you for being here. I know that at Davis College you decided to use holacracy as a self management system. And I think many listeners of the podcast will be familiar with holacracy. But I think it would be really interesting if...more
... know that at Davis College you decided to use holacracy as a self management system. And I think many listeners of the podcast will be familiar with holacracy. But I think it would be really interesting if you could share with us what was the process of adopting holacracy in Davis College? How did you start...more
...f the podcast will be familiar with holacracy. But I think it would be really interesting if you could share with us what was the process of adopting holacracy in Davis College? How did you start this transformation? Pasteur Byabeza: Great. Thank you, Lisa. That's a good question to start with. For the last...more
...feedback we received with the early success of the new system in pilot circles, everyone at Davis College, and Akilah, was invited to transition into holacracy. That's how we disbanded the global cancer. We did away also with any formal or informal leadership roles or titles. So there are no more department...more
...ting. And I guess, it'd be interesting to hear your experience personally. I know that in your current role, you have evolved into a role called in a holacracy system, a lead link, and you're the lead link of the Student Care Circle. So how has the experience been for you? What have you learned in that new r...more
...was a very big challenge. So in an African context, or across the globe, I do not think that there are many higher learning institution that practice holacracy and self management. So, because of that, you can understand why most people were a little bit skeptical. We like the idea of self management. It's b...more
...a of self management. It's brilliant - but is it really something that can work in a higher learning institution, or other organisations, or practice holacracy from other fields? Does it work for our business? We don't know, we don't have any other higher level institution that already practiced self managem...more

Margaret Wheatley on leadership and Warriors for the Human Spirit

...sually. So I think this all works to describe Western civilization, we are sacrificed in egregious, terrible levels, right? So these little blips of holacracy. I mean, that's all they are. They're little moments, which, for some people now we think, Oh, that's a sign of hope. You know, we're going to conver...more
... you do it. And it is increasingly hard work because these other forces are so, so strong. I mean, they're exponentially strong now. So it could be a holacracy. It could be bringing up any of the old words we used to use for self organised systems. It's our work, and that requires training. And it requires c...more

Jorge Silva on horizontal structures and participatory culture at 10Pines

... but you can't find another way. So you go to the classics. But if you start to see that there are a lot of other ways to do this - Sociocracy, Teal, Holacracy, whatever and we start creating content, this matters. Right now we have a lot of books, but if you go to school or to university, it's really hard f...more

Lisa Gill and Mark Eddleston celebrate 50 episodes of Leadermorphosis

..., and then the next week it might be Extinction Rebellion - fantastic, and Miki Kashtan, Margaret Wheatley, the creators of Liberating Structures and Holacracy, Corporate Rebels, Aaron Dignan, Enspiral, Ouishare: anybody who's anybody in the world of progressive organisations and self-management. Have you c...more

Miki Kashtan on the three shifts needed for self-managing organisations to thrive

...vice process, then the system is this: who makes which decisions? Anyone can make any decision. That's the purest advice process, it gets modified in Holacracy systems based on roles, but essentially, who makes which decisions? Anyone can make any decision. Who gives input? The people who are affected, and t...more

Edwin Jansen on how people adopt self-management at Fitzii
...een on your podcast, Lisa, so I'm a big fan of Sam's), and she had written an article about generative decision-making, which I think she lifted from holacracy or someone did, but, wherever it came from, it's really great: it's a way for a group to make a consent-based decision and to really co-create a deci...more

Aaron Dignan on being complexity conscious and people positive

... don't think about it as binary. So there's a there's a habit in this industry to think about it like you're either teal, or you're not, you're doing holacracy, or you're not, you're in or you're out, we're going to flip it, don't do that. I think you can. There can be moments where you make big changes, rig...more

Gary Hamel on busting bureaucracy for good
...Lisa Gill: On that note, what do you think about some of these pre-designed models for organising like holacracy? What are your thoughts about that? Gary Hamel: I don't have enough experience to comment on any particular model. But I'm very dubious that we're at...more