How can the entrepreneurial spirit and culture scale beyond start-up size? Holacracy® offers a radical new answer to this question, in the form of a set of tested and customizable self-management practices. With Holacracy in place, every team member gains the ability to make meaningful decisions and drive change in service of the organization’s purpose. In addition to clarifying agreements and expectations, and increasing transparency, the Holacracy approach promises to fundamentally rewire your organization’s approach to power. More details: https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8569/holacracy-unleash-entrepreneurship-in-your-team Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org

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HOLACRACY®
Introducing
BRIAN ROBERTSON
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The Way We’ve Been
Structuring Organizations:
A DIFFERENT PARADIGM: ORDER WITHOUT BOSSES

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An Alternative System for Structuring Organizations:
HOLACRACY
BOUNDARIES
STRUCTURE
RULES
CLARITY
CONSTRAINTS
Real Empowerment Requires:

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Holacracy’s Approach:
Define small, clear roles,
with clear power
To serve your role, you
have the full authority to
make any decision or take
any action, as long as
there’s no rule against it.
Clarify boundaries, so
everyone knows what
freedom they really have
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…to Evolve the Rules and Boundaries
Real Empowerment Also Requires A Process
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Holacracy’s Approach:
Add a governance
process to every team

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Evolving Roles:
One Tension at a Time…
The feeling you get when you sense a gap
between “what is” and “what could be”.
Tension, n.:
Beware of Overdesign!
is could be
… use tensions to drive change

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Replacing the
Management
Hierarchy:
A Holacracy-style
“Org Chart”
Holacracy at Scale:
Zappos’ Structure

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Every Game
Needs a Good
Rulebook
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Summary of Holacracy’s Key Shifts
Static Job Descriptions Dynamic Roles
Delegated Authority Constitutional Authority
Large Scale Re-orgs Tension-Driven Iteration
Alignment by Politics Alignment by Governance

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In Summary: A New
“Social Technology”
for Organizations
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Questions?