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An summary of the article and the concept that Tony Hsieh wrote: "We’ve been operating partially under Holacracy and partially under the legacy management hier
by jcrites 12y ago
An summary of the article and the concept that Tony Hsieh wrote:
"We’ve been operating partially under Holacracy and partially under the legacy management hierarchy in parallel for over a year now. Having one foot in one world while having the other foot in the other world has slowed down our transformation towards self-management and self-organization. [W]e haven't made fast enough progress towards self-management, self-organization, and more efficient structures to run our business.
"After many conversations and a lot of feedback about where we are versus our desired state of self-organization, self-management, increased autonomy, and increased efficiency, we are going to take a "rip the bandaid" approach to accelerate progress towards becoming a [self-managing] organization. As of 4/30/15, in order to eliminate the legacy management hierarchy, there will be effectively be no more people managers." He goes onto to describe more about how this will work.
What does Holacracy entail?
"Holacracy is a social technology or system of organizational governance in which authority and decision-making are distributed throughout a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested at the top of a hierarchy", according to Wikipedia.
- mauricemir 12y agoSo informal high school cliques vs a Hierarchy - I can guess what the average outcome will be.
- dandare 12y agoThis is my main concern. I have never studied the concept in detail but I don't see how self-organisation addresses any problem.
- mauricemir 12y agowell i have worked at a worker coop we (collectively) did have over all control but there where still managers.
- ultimape 12y agoSelf organization, when mirroring a biological system (such as our immune system) can be co-opted by cancers and auto-immune causing pathogens. No system is perfect.
- golemotron 12y ago> "Holacracy is a social technology or system of organizational governance in which authority and decision-making are distributed throughout a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested at the top of a hierarchy", according to Wikipedia. Yet there he is at the top of the hierarchy telling people to do it.
- gadders 12y agoWhat if the holocracy decides they like hierarchies?
- ph0rque 12y agoBrian: Please, please, please listen! I've got one or two things to say. The Crowd: Tell us! Tell us both of them! Brian: Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't NEED to follow ME, You don't NEED to follow ANYBODY! You've got to think for your selves! You're ALL individuals! The Crowd: Yes! We're all individuals! Brian: You're all different! The Crowd: Yes, we ARE all different! Man in crowd: I'm not... The Crowd: Shhhhh!
- rkuykendall-com 12y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjz16xjeBAA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjz16xjeBAA Quote starts at 1:20. One of the funniest movies I've ever seen.
- kbenson 12y agoI admit I was thinking while reading the email that it would be rather funny if their ad hoc emergent groups elected managers to manage them, and replicated a hierarchical structure.
- rickcusick 12y agoRight? My irony detection meter pegged when I read this article/email. Beautiful needs, tragic strategy.
- athrun 12y ago
- peteretep 12y ago> there will be effectively be no more people managers I hope they've got some shit-hot HR and legal
- ExpiredLink 12y agoThe opposite of formal management and hierarchy isn't "self-management" and "self-organization" but informal power structures and hierarchies. Ultimately, less security and more social pressure and control for the individual. Brave new world of work.
- mauricemir 12y agoYes non conformists do not do well in these sort of organizations
- 21echoes 12y agogood thing Holacracy is everything except "informal", then.. literally the core idea is that you take the implicit jobs of management and make them explicit & open, and allow them to be claimed by more than just one individual.
- angelbob 12y agoIt's an interesting idea. It has many standard pitfalls, as a 1970s paper, "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" points out: http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm Basically, informal systems are, by their nature, harder to regulate. And "unregulated" is not the same as "works well and fairly."