nomade0

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by nomade0 10y ago
You're right Flenser. In fact there is typically more structure in a company running with Holacracy vs. a traditional management hierarchy. Or maybe more accurately, the structure is clearer and more explicit with Holacracy at play.
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by nomade0 11y ago
Thanks richmarr for paying attention to the details instead of swallowing the press' simplistic statements :)
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by nomade0 12y ago
"This might seem pedantically trivial"... you were right ;)
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by nomade0 13y ago
I've explained the difference further in a blog post: "Holacracy vs. Hierarchy vs. Flat Orgs" https://medium.com/holacracyone-blog/d1545d5dffa7
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by nomade0 13y ago
Catherine, you are confusing "Holacracy" for a generic term that means "flat organizations" and "lack of structure". Holacracy® is a specific system with clear rules (available here: http://holacracy
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by nomade0 13y ago
You got it right. I work with Holacracy and I can confirm... everything you read Holacracy being blamed for, as in Catherine Bracy's article, is actually not against Holacracy. They think it's against Holacracy, because they mista
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by nomade0 13y ago
I work with HolacracyOne, the company behind Holacracy. We definitely have a lot of work to do to explain Holacracy outside of our trainings & consulting services - we're a young company and haven't focused on that as much s
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by nomade0 13y ago
Yes, ROLES are still there, definitely. See "Five Misconceptions About Holacracy" https://medium.com/about-holacracy/da84d8ba15e1 and a post by a Zappos employee about Holacracy: http://rianschmidt
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by nomade0 13y ago
Yep, it's definitely the risk when you get rid of an explicit structure – it gets replaced by a new, implicit one. In contrast, Holacracy doesn't just get rid of hierarchy, it REPLACES it with another structure – and in many ways,
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by nomade0 13y ago
I work with HolacracyOne, the company behind Holacracy. It's not as simple as Lead Link = Manager. You can find more in this video if you're interested in the difference: http://holacracy.org/resources/the-lea
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by nomade0 13y ago
I'd say the largest at this time would be Agencies of Change, 200+ employees (though it was a few years ago, I don't know now). We're currently working with one significantly bigger client, but we let them announce it first.
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by nomade0 13y ago
No, the processes themselves are not explained in this video. This other one explains "tactical meetings": http://youtu.be/8NrsVBATZCM That said if you want the technicalities of the process, you'll find ever
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by nomade0 13y ago
Yes, it's exactly what it means. He's the "manager" of his roles, and within the authority granted to this roles, he can make autocratic decisions that others can't veto (not even the "Lead Link"). And it&
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by nomade0 13y ago
I have to say I agree with your point 1) in general. But not with 2). Holacracy is not just a set of vague principles that you swear to apply as best as you can, or some bolt-on process to add to your box. It's a completely different w
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by nomade0 13y ago
In my experience, there are less non-profits formally working with Holacracy mostly because they can't afford hiring the consultants to help them adopt it. And it's not easy to adopt on your own - it goes against a lot of oft-entr
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by nomade0 13y ago
All this insight from reading the constitution? I'm impressed
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by nomade0 13y ago
Well, technically, I'll grant you that it's impossible to rule out. IMO it's highly unlikely that someone came up with these rules: http://holacracy.org/constitution , but I'm not going to argue that, the
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by nomade0 13y ago
Yes, yes, and yes. I work with Holacracy and I will confirm that the techniques described from Stirman's experience before joining Medium (chatting with employees, SCARF, etc.) are not to be put in the same bag as Holacracy. It doesn&#
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by nomade0 13y ago
Heads up, this is not the actual Holacracy constitution, but a copy of the "Plain English" version, which might have been further modified on Github. The official constitution is here: http://holacracy.org/constitu
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by nomade0 13y ago
Based on what I read about Valve, it is not surprising that they have a lot of politics going on. That's the issue with flat structures - when authorities and accountabilities are unclear, you need make alliances (seen as "cliques
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by nomade0 13y ago
If you want to hear more about Holacracy, there is a webinar this afternoon at 1:30 PST: http://holacracy.org/events/intro-to-holacracy-free-webinar-... - Disclaimer: I work with HolacracyOne, the company behind the mo
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by nomade0 15y ago
Thanks pdubroy for finally pointing this out. There is no data to back up the author's hypothesis, so it's just that, a (why-not-plausible) hypothesis. Any discussion further should start with "If this is true, then..."