You can freely access the whole of the Holacracy Constitution (the rules and processes for the governance and operations of an organization) – but bear in mind that the failure for adopting Holacracy without expert guidance is very high. There is also a comprehensive Holacracy Practitioner’s Guide available on Medium.
From the About section of their Facebook Page:
Holacracy is a new way of working that completely replaces the conventional management hierarchy with a tested, customizable self-management practice that empowers people throughout an organization to make decisions and get things done with autonomy, clarity and agility.
HolacracyOne is the leading Holacracy-powered organization helping people and organizations put Holacracy into practice through customized consulting, coaching and training. HolacracyOne’s team can help you learn more about Holacracy, apply it to your organization, or find a Licensed Holacracy Consultant to guide the way.
We also make GlassFrog, the official software to support and advance an organization’s Holacracy practice.
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From Holacracy.org website:
Brian Robertson is an experienced entrepreneur, organizational pioneer, and author of the book Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World. He is most well-known for his work developing Holacracy®, a self-management practise for running purpose-driven, responsive companies. Mr Robertson currently works as a business partner at HolacracyOne, the organization he launched to steward the Holacracy practice and assist other organizations seeking to adopt it. Holacracy® has been adopted by over 1,000 companies around the world to date.
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Last 50 posts on own channels (YouTube, Podcast, Medium or Website/Blog):
Holacracy for the Psychedelic Industry
Published on: 21 Apr 22 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by Holacracy
Integrating DAOs & Holacracy
Published on: 12 Apr 22 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by Holacracy
A Conversation with Brian Robertson and Graham Boyd
Published on: 29 Dec 21 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by HolacracyOne
Leadership in Holacracy Webinar (September 15, 2020)
Published on: 23 Sep 20 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by HolacracyOne
Forum Fireside: Difficult Conversations
Published on: 14 Sep 20 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by HolacracyOne
How to Make Holacracy Harder with Dr. Michael Y. Lee and Michael DeAngelo
Published on: 17 Jul 20 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by HolacracyOne
Upgrade Your Meetings – Holacracy Resources Webinar with Chris Cowan
Published on: 1 Jul 20 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by HolacracyOne
Getting Things Done While Working Remotely Webinar
Published on: 12 Jun 20 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by HolacracyOne
Leading Virtual Team & Meetings
Published on: 29 Apr 20 in HolacracyOne – Medium
by HolacracyOne
Webinar Recording: Navigating GlassFrog Like a Pro
Published on: 21 Apr 20 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by HolacracyOne
Leading Virtual Teams and Meetings
Published on: 16 Apr 20 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by HolacracyOne
Learning to Trust as a CEO
Published on: 1 Apr 20 in HolacracyOne – Medium
by HolacracyOne
How Does Holacracy Relate to GTD?
Published on: 11 Feb 20 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by HolacracyOne
How Does Holacracy Relate to Sociocracy?
Published on: 4 Feb 20 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by HolacracyOne
Scaling Holacracy Across Organizations – The LHP Circle
Published on: 28 Jan 20 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by HolacracyOne
Holacracy & Sociocracy: Contrasting Paradigms
Published on: 21 Jan 20 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by HolacracyOne
GTD® & Holacracy®
Published on: 14 Jan 20 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by HolacracyOne
Agile Software Development & Holacracy®
Published on: 6 Jan 20 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by HolacracyOne
Integral Theory & Holacracy®
Published on: 30 Dec 19 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by HolacracyOne
What Is Holacracy? – Tom Thomison
Published on: 23 Dec 19 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by HolacracyOne
Sociocracy & Holacracy®
Published on: 20 Dec 19 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by HolacracyOne
Holacracy Intro Webinar with Eric Graham – December 10, 2019
Published on: 10 Dec 19 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by HolacracyOne
Leading in Holacracy Webinar
Published on: 6 Dec 19 in HolacracyOne – YouTube
by HolacracyOne
Precision Nutrition’s journey to Holacracy and the impact it had on their company
Published on: 24 Oct 19 in HolacracyOne – Medium
by HolacracyOne
Precision Nutrition’s journey to Holacracy and the impact it had on their company
Published on: 24 Oct 19 in HolacracyOne – Medium
by HolacracyOne
Installing a New OS for Our Company: Part 2
Published on: 27 Mar 19 in HolacracyOne – Medium
by HolacracyOne
Installing a New OS for Our Company
Published on: 27 Mar 19 in HolacracyOne – Medium
by HolacracyOne
Hi Max,
Published on: 22 Feb 19 in HolacracyOne – Medium
by HolacracyOne
Hi Max,
Published on: 21 Feb 19 in HolacracyOne – Medium
by HolacracyOne
Tag a Role in Slack
Published on: 21 Feb 19 in HolacracyOne – Medium
by HolacracyOne
From Yolo to Holo
Published on: 8 Feb 19 in HolacracyOne – Medium
by HolacracyOne
Why Our Church Uses Holacracy
Published on: 21 Nov 18 in HolacracyOne – Medium
by HolacracyOne
I’m a Better Leader Now That I’ve Stopped Managing
Published on: 25 Jun 18 in HolacracyOne – Medium
by HolacracyOne
My 5 Takeaways from a Holacracy® Taster Workshop
Published on: 22 Apr 18 in HolacracyOne – Medium
by HolacracyOne
Webinar Recording & Transcripthttps://medium.com/media/c874db08f056f9597415953954c8860c/hrefTranscriptSo welcome everyone. I’m Brian Robertson. I’m going to be your host for our webinar today and we’re going to be talking about leading virtual teams and
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How Holacracy Helped Me “Fire” Myself from the Role of Traditional CEO and Learn to Let GoBy Dennis van der Heijden, Co-founder of ConvertJust a few years ago I was asked, on
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Precision Nutrition’s journey to Holacracy and the impact it had on the companyBrian Robertson of HolacracyOne spoke with Phil Caravaggio of Toronto-based nutrition and fitness industry pioneer Precision Nutrition. In early
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Precision Nutrition’s journey to Holacracy and the impact it had on the companyThis interview was lost in the digital void and just recently rediscovered in a small, dark, unlisted part of
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Where to Start?By Matthijs CollardSince Part 1 of this series a lot has happened. The biggest event was our adoption of the Holacracy constitution. My business partners and I signed the document
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Installing a New OS for Our Company: Part 1Training Our PeopleBy Matthijs CollardToday, three of my colleagues started with the “Holacracy Practitioner Training.”The training is given by Brian Robertson. He developed Holacracy and
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Hi Max,The answer is “it’s complicated” and you are correct in that we have struggled about a way to communicate what is essentially a completely new “social technology” in a
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Hi Max,Thank you for your responses. We enjoy learning from both the successes and failures of Holacracy adoption efforts. Holacracy is certainly not appropriate for every organization, and there are
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New Feature in GlassFrogIn Holacracy practice, we use roles to give organizational clarity. Roles may have a purpose, accountabilities, or domains. A single person may fill many roles. Or many
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The HOLACRACY — Episode 1This is a guest post by Magalena Tula from Tooploox team on their journey to adopting the Holacracy practice.The story begins …Once upon a time, three talented developers decided to
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Photo by Nicole Honeywill on UnsplashThis post was contributed by Jeremy Martin. He’s is the founding pastor of Downtown Faith, a community of faith in the heart of downtown Las Vegas.What’s this
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A CEO’s Journey to Self-managementBy Joris EvendikManagers Who Didn’t Like to ManageI’d been a manager for about 10 years. Then one day I came to the realization that I didn’t enjoy managing.
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Struggling to make remote work…well, work? We’ve been fully remote since 2007. And we have no managers. We’re a partnership of cross-functional teams working towards the same purpose. We can teach you operational, relational, and org design processes to do the same. Join us in September for a an online Holacracy Practitioner Training to learn how to communicate and collaborate
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Good leadership often means getting out of the way. Find the right people, set up the right processes, and leave space for both to evolve.
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Trauma-Informed Workplace: Kindness Works Better https://loom.ly/FdaDz50SHRM Blogblog.shrm.orgIt’s Time to Cause The Effect by Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCPOn January 15, 2022 0 comments Throughout the last two years of a global crisis and unprecedented upheaval, HR was asked to do more than it ever has. And we stepped up in response to monumental threats to people’s lives and livelihood…
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“If you want lots of flexibility (agility, responsiveness) in your organization, then you will also need to get pretty damn rigid (firm, unyielding) about your purpose and boundaries. Similarly, Holacracy is incredibly flexible, not in spite of having rigid rules, but because of it.” — Diederick Janse, co-founder of Energized.orgHolacracy: A Framework, Not A Blueprintcorporate-rebels.comMethods are useful. They are like
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What do you want to accomplish in the new year?
Why do we call Holacracy a practice? You’re going to mess up at first. A lot. It should feel hard–you’re exercising new mental muscles! And the more you learn and the more you practice, the better you’ll become.
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“Defining an explicit purpose isn’t about trying to predict and control the future. Members of the organization are invited to listen to what the organization wants to become: what purpose it wants to serve. And we can’t know what that is unless we talk about it. That’s why Holacracy practice puts so much emphasis on having an explicit versus intuitive
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When you work can have a profound effect on how well you work.How to Synchronize Sleep and Productivity in 2021 – Blog – Shiftbuff.lyDiscover your sleep chronotype to understand and prioritize your sleep cycle, while boosting joy and productivity in your life….
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“One of the most difficult challenges in the work of transformation is helping people and organizations engage in regular reflective practice in a way that aligns individual and organizational development toward a shared vision. “Like an exercise program, we know doing inner work is good for us but how do we get started? How do we sustain the practice? A
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Is something bothering you in your work life? Draw your attention to it. What’s the tension behind it? How can you process that tension and make a change?
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“Organizations have become more complex. Far from solving the problem of complexity, we’ve worsened it with bureaucracy. Many companies have fallen into this trap. They attempt to predict the future and try to wrest control from chaos. They believe commanding and controlling is still the way to go. Spoiler alert: it’s not.”Reinventing Work: From Optimization To Adaptationbuff.ly”I dispensed with the
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#MondayMotivation
Low psychological safety in the workplace has led to some major and avoidable disasters (think the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster for a fatal example). How can leaders help create fearless organizations where it’s safe to speak up?Psychological Safety: How Pioneers Create Engaged Workforcesbuff.lyImagine working in a team where it’s safe to take risks—in a team where mistakes are not held
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Been thinking that you need to read the Holacracy book? Now is the perfect time! The Kindle version is on sale for $1.99: https://buff.ly/3gkcuza
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We were deeply saddened to hear Tony Hsieh’s untimely passing on Friday. His vision for the future of organizations had a profound impact on the Holacracy movement, as well as many of us personally at HolacracyOne.Tony Hsieh, the former visionary CEO of Zappos, has died. Here’s how his radical business philosophy transformed Zappos and made him ‘a pioneer of a
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Holacracy practice systematizes management. It supports productive and creative people instead of getting in their way.
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Have habits from Holacracy practice spilled over into your personal life?4 ways how self organisation improves your private life – Teal / Tamagobuff.ly4 ways how self organisation improves your private life 2 Comments / Holacracy, Self organisation / By Matt Hallmann When we think of concepts like self organisation or self management, these two terms are used interchangeable very often,
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In Uganda, Holacracy practice has taken root through the Social Innovation Academy and helped create an empowering environment for at-risk youth.Holacracy as a Catalyst for Personal Growthbuff.lySocial Innovation Academy’s Holacracy Story
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When you lack organizational clarity around explicit responsibilities, it’s all too easy to fall into the trap of blaming colleagues for not doing what they “should” be doing. It’s a very normal human response. But it inevitably leads to stressful conflict with no clear paths to resolution.Ending the Blame Gamebuff.lyHow can you transform workplace conflicts into opportunities to clarify responsibilities?
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“I define a leader as anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes.” – @BreneBrown The Holacracy framework offers a set of management practices that support this approach to leadership. How do you define a leader? https://t.co/Bbr21Xq6a6
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RT @AdamMGrant: The goal of a great discussion isn’t to land on the same page. It’s to explore different views. Nods and smiles stroke your ego and close your mind. Thoughtful questions stoke your curiosity and stretch your thinking. Consensus makes you comfortable. Dissent makes you smarter.
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RT @gtdtimes: If you truly grok the strategic value of clear frequency, you’ll pay more attention to the sources of your static. – DA
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RT @xpreneurs: Die Antwort auf die Frage “Was macht ein Kreis-Lead in #Holacracy v5.0?”, hängt davon ab, welche Artikel der neuen Verfassung eingeführt wurden, d.h. die Kernrollen und ihre einzelnen Verantwortlichkeiten werden selbst modular eingeführt. https://xpr.li/3Pu0Jqu
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Any #Holacracy coaches feel like this after facilitating an early stage governance meeting? 😂 https://twitter.com/samspurlin/status/1549092724665683968
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RT @Holacracy: Starting a startup is hard. Growing a startup is hard. Management is hard. If you want to stay agile while you scale, status quo management isn’t going to work. But you have options: https://loom.ly/0K8iS2k #startup #management #entrepreneur @denniswittrock @xprenuers
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RT @jewelraquel: @HolacracyOne I still use what I learned during practitioner certification at Zappos (under Brian) to hold meetings at my current non-Holacracy company. ❤️
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Learn how to stay aligned with purpose and get what you need to get your work done. In our immersive, online training, you’ll work with your peers and skilled Holacracy coaches to build a strong practice foundation. Learn more: https://loom.ly/HWlKQFs
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RT @_Rosien: One of the great things of a role-based organization system like #holacracy that’s not often discussed is that it becomes so easy to hone a wide range of interests and expertises, and the acknowledgement that people are more than one thing, also at work. 🧵
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Trauma-Informed Workplace: Kindness Works Better https://loom.ly/FdaDz50 #mentalhealthatwork #organizationalpsychology
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Learn theory and principles from world-class trainers and immediately put it into practice by playing through real-world scenarios. Save your spot for the next Holacracy Coach Training today: https://loom.ly/mFo2hKQ
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Holacracy Forum 2022 was a little smaller and quieter, but we finally made it to Amsterdam! It was great to see new and familiar faces at our (sort of) annual gathering for practitioners and coaches. Who’s ready for next year? What topics should we explore?
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RT @h1brian: “There’s plenty of criticism that Holacracy is rigid, complex, and inhuman, and there’s truth to some of that. I intend to bring more nuance to that story … from a place of intellectual honesty and hard-won experience.” Nicely done @diederickjanse! https://corporate-rebels.com/holacracy-a-framework-not-a-blueprint
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RT @RnDAO__: Here is the recording of last Friday talk with @h1brian about Integrating DAOs and Holacracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvDAMRQvTpg
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Heading to Holacracy Forum? We’ve got a sweet tip! 🍫 Van Soest Amsterdam makes the most delectable chocolate confections and is a quick (and beautiful!) ten-minute walk through the canal district from @LiveZoku. 😉 https://loom.ly/GJpHlJY
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RT @VoysNL: Collega @MarkV was te gast bij de beste tech podcast van Nederland: Met Nerds om Tafel! Over een bedrijf van één naar 160 collega’s brengen, werken zonder managers en slimme tools om beter samen te werken. Een leuke luister voor de weg naar huis: https://loom.ly/a4ErwSU https://t.co/IX3AY1xozA
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RT @EnergizedOrg: Hoe doen jullie dat dan met… [vergaderen, geld uitgeven, beslissingen nemen, etc]? Ervaar #zelforganisatie met #Holacracy zelf tijdens de online intro op 21 april https://energized.org/product/holacracy-workshop-april2022/
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When was the last time you captured a tension? Write a tension down as soon as you notice it. This tiny habit keeps your work tensions from piling up in your mind and going unprocessed. ✏️😃 #Holacracy #AtomicHabits https://t.co/xmKqOa8n2d
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The schedule for Holacracy Forum ’22 in Amsterdam is up! 🇳🇱 We’ll be announcing more speakers and session info soon, so keep an eye out. 👀 More details here: https://loom.ly/iw4sFKk
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RT @MicheleZanini: Tired: Listening to employee ideas on how to improve the workplace. Wired: Letting employees generate, test, and scale ideas on how to improve the workplace.
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RT @dhinchcliffe: #Remotework was the fastest #tech adoption story in the history of the industry. It showed that fast #digitaltransformation is actually possible for most organizations. It just takes the imperative and the will. #cio #cdo #leadership #FutureOfWork #cloud
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What are the behavioral changes we need to work on to really get the organizational powershift that’s possible with Holacracy practice? That’s one of the many questions we explore during Holacracy Forum at Zoku Amsterdam. Will we see you there next month? https://loom.ly/GJpHlJY
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RT @AdamMGrant: Working from home 2 days a week is good for people and organizations. Experiment: 1600 people, 6 months. Being randomly assigned to 3 days onsite (vs. 5): -Quitting down 35%, sick days down 12% -Increased satisfaction -No cost to performance or promotions The future is hybrid.
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RT @corp_rebels: 😬😬😬 What else can you add to this list? #CorporateRebels #MakeWorkMoreFun #Work #WorkCulture
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You can freely access the whole of the Holacracy Constitution (the rules and processes for the governance and operations of an organization) – but bear in mind that the failure for adopting Holacracy without expert guidance is very high. There is also a comprehensive Holacracy Practitioner’s Guide available on Medium.