By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Apr 20
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 a Friday night, to approve a Converter’s decision to buy a software tool. I thought it was so silly: having to approve buying a tool that cost less than $50 a month. I’ve written and talked about this journey in detail, but in short, it set me on a course to self-management with Holacracy.Fast forward to 2019, and Convert is a fully Holacracy-powered organization. And I no longer have to
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 a Friday night, to approve a Converter’s decision to buy a software tool. I thought it was so silly: having to approve buying a tool that cost less than $50
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 24 Oct 19
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 our records. It’s never been published on Medium, and we don’t do founder interviews like this anymore. Here’s the article in its unabridged glory—enjoy.Brian Robertson of HolacracyOne spoke with Phil Caravaggio of Toronto-based nutrition and fitness industry pioneer Precision Nutrition a year after they adopted Holacracy. In early 2012, Phil and his co-founder, John Berardi, were considering using Holacracy as a way to run the company as it grew. A
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 our records. It’s never been published on Medium, and we don’t do founder interviews like this anymore. Here’s the article in its unabridged glory—enjoy.Brian Robertson of HolacracyOne spoke with Phil
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 24 Oct 19
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 our records. It’s never been published on Medium, and we don’t do founder interviews like this anymore. Here’s the article in its unabridged glory—enjoy.Brian Robertson of HolacracyOne spoke with Phil Caravaggio of Toronto-based nutrition and fitness industry pioneer Precision Nutrition a year after they adopted Holacracy. In early 2012, Phil and his co-founder, John Berardi, were considering using Holacracy as a way to run the company as it grew. A
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 our records. It’s never been published on Medium, and we don’t do founder interviews like this anymore. Here’s the article in its unabridged glory—enjoy.Brian Robertson of HolacracyOne spoke with Phil
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 27 Mar 19
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 the 7th of June with our colleagues as witness.Rick signs the adoption declarationIn this post I’d like to give you some insights about how we got started on this adventure. This is by no means a tutorial or a guide to self-management. Rather it is more of a timeline of my own explorations leading up to the decision to give Holacracy a serious try. If you are interested in self-management, then
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 the 7th of June with our colleagues as witness.Rick signs the adoption declarationIn this post I’d like to give you some insights about how we got started on this adventure. This
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 18 Mar 19
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 is the author of the book Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World.Martijn, Caya, Brian and Fenna. (We forgot to send Brian the dress code memo. 👔)I read the book. No, I listened to it. Twice even. But I didn’t join the training. I might go later this year. But I will sign the constitution somewhere in the upcoming two months. These 39 pages document the core rules, structure,
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 is the author of the book Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World.Martijn, Caya, Brian and Fenna. (We forgot to send Brian the dress code memo. 👔)I read the
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 6 Feb 19
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 create a company like no other. Pawel, Damian and Krzysztof wanted to work in an exquisite, creative work environment with cutting edge technology. This is how Tooploox was born. During the first two years, we grew with a slow but constant pace, many people came on board and we found new partners to work with. At that time you could easily fit everyone into one conference room. After three years
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 create a company like no other. Pawel, Damian and Krzysztof wanted to work in an exquisite, creative work environment with cutting edge technology. This is how Tooploox was born. During
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 21 Nov 18
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 word…”Holacracy”?If you live around downtown Las Vegas you’ve probably heard the word Holacracy. You might even have an opinion on the idea. And you also may work in an organization that operates using Holacracy.If you study business and/or read organizational books and articles, then you might also have some understanding of this term. It’s relatively new. It’s certainly controversial. Some would say it involves a new level of human consciousness.
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 word…”Holacracy”?If you live around downtown Las Vegas you’ve probably heard the word Holacracy. You might even have an opinion on the idea. And you also may work in an organization