The CEO relinquishes power, changes compensation to a “badge” system of rewards for skills and has “governance” sessions in place of daily meetings. Welcome to the trademarked workplace known as ...

Every day we are presented with new headlines that touch on the future of work and how things like robots, artificial intelligence and millennials will impact or disrupt industries. In most of these ...

Just ask Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, who has taken the ambitious step of flattening the corporate organization of his 4,000-employee company, smashing hierarchies and prioritizing teams. This month Zappos ...

It's one thing for a CEO to talk about empowering employees. It's quite another for the CEO to embrace a process that intentionally takes some power out of his or her hands. Imagine telling this to ...

I recently spent a month embedded at a consultancy called Undercurrent, watching how they help organizations become more adaptive and responsive. It’s a transformative concept I’ve been thinking about ...

Work is changing. When Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh announced in March that the company would adopt Holacracy, it was clear that the alternative organizational structure, famous for its lack of managers, was ...

The online shoe-seller Zappos has been experimenting with a self-management organizational structure known as Holacracy for two years. But on April 30 the company plans to be fully manager-free, ...

For years, employee engagement at Intrust IT, a business technology provider, has been high. Having high engagement and low turnover is no small feat for a fast-growing IT company, “and we do it all ...

Extant Structure is an indication of the way things are done and what is actually operating Requisite Structure is what the company aspires its structure to be According to Holacracy's founder Brian ...

Once again, holacracy is making headlines both for how radical the flat management philosophy seems and how difficult it is to adopt. Look no further than the latest batch of stories about the ...