[teampractices] Long Read on "self-organization" at Zappos

Arthur Richards arichards at wikimedia.org
Tue Oct 6 21:58:22 UTC 2015


Oh, and of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> I haven't read the article yet but did notice they don't mention Holocracy
> in it. If you're not familiar with it, Holocracy is a a 'complete system
> for self-organization' - it's an organizational system that tries to apply
> agile principles at an organizational and management scale. Interesting
> stuff - Zappos is probably the most well known org that uses Holocracy.
> Read more:
> http://www.zapposinsights.com/about/holacracy
>
> https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/holacracy-and-the-search-for-agile-organization
> http://www.holacracy.org/
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Grace Gellerman <ggellerman at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I think that groups self-organize rather than individuals, but there's
>> some truth is stranger than fiction material in here:
>>
>>
>> http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122965/can-billion-dollar-corporation-zappos-be-self-organized
>>
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