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

Arthur Richards arichards at wikimedia.org
Tue Oct 6 22:05:40 UTC 2015


While the article doesn't mention Holocracy, it DOES mention Holacracy. I
should have skimmed closer rather than just searching the article with
command+f for a misspelled word :p

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> 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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