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I think one important issue is how these managers, who's roles and titles were diminished with this holacracy approach, will sell themselves as managers in futu
by blantonl 11y ago
I think one important issue is how these managers, who's roles and titles were diminished with this holacracy approach, will sell themselves as managers in future roles outside of Zappos.
These days no one really envisions working for the same company for 30 years. It will be tough for leaders within Zappos to show on paper their leadership progression.
I think the idea of holacracy has legs, but I haven't seen any other implementation that would lend credence so far.
- late2part 11y agoI think a lot of companies like Google/Facebook/Crowdstrike/Uber will appreciate someone who was successful in an environment like Zappos' holocracy experiment.
- w1ntermute 11y agoThat limits you to the tech industry, when many non-technical managers may look to go to other retail or apparel companies, which will be much more conservative.
- jessedhillon 11y agoHow did Crowdstrike manage to be mentioned among the likes of those other three?
- aNoob7000 11y agoI personally think what Zappos is doing wouldn't work in a lot of businesses. Holacracy to me sounds like Agile or DevOps. Maybe one or two places are doing Agile/DevOps correctly and everybody else is just doing some kind of bastardize form of Waterfall, or as they call it at my place, "AgileFall".