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Inside Zappos
Very interesting read from someone working at Zappos. https://blog.holacracy.org/thanks-for-all-of-your-concern-but-f9c6a86bb332 I recently met some folks that were part of the Zappos team and in the tester for Holacracy at Zappos and they...
09/16/2015
Circles within Anchor Circle
One of my co-workers recently asked me if it was possible to add a 2nd circle in the Anchor circle, besides our GCC. I told him I didn't think so, but I now don't see why it couldn't. A little back story, our company is a worker-owned...
10/08/2015
Brief Summary
Is it possible to add a brief summary/key topics to the Coach's Office Hours posts? It would be super helpful to determine if what was discussed is pertinent to us or not.
01/14/2016
Introducing New Hires to Holacracy
Right now, I do about an hour talk with each new person. It goes over basic stuff like "how to recognize a tension, what's a governance meeting, what's a tactical meeting...etc." I am wondering what other places do. I sometimes feel that what I do is not enough. I know Zappos spends, I think, 3...
02/08/2016
Calendar Invite
Is there any way possible to add a calendar function for the Secretary to use? That way when a meeting is called, they can just go to the calendar for that circle and say when the meeting is and if it's going to be a tactical or governance. I was checking out holaSpirit and noticed that. It seems...
06/13/2016
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Gamifying Glassfrog
I hadn't thought of a point system per se, but I like that idea. The thought I had, that might work for my company at least, is a sort of scavenger hunt type of thing. We are looking into doing badges to show progress in other aspects of the company, and once you finished the scavenger hunt, you ...
08/29/2015
Meeting Timeboxes
We use Holacracy in a production kitchen setting. Every morning, all the cooks meet for 15 minutes around a whiteboard that has all of the tasks for the day. The Expo role acts as the facilitator and does a quick tactical meeting. We do check-ins, tensions/announcements, and then go over tasks fo...
09/08/2015
Meeting Timeboxes
We are on a pretty strict production schedule. We have a new menu each week that goes up on Thursdays and has to be finished by Wednesday mid-day. We have a multi-filled role that deals with planning when each item gets made during the week. At the end of the day each day, the Expo that was on du...
09/09/2015
Cheat Sheets anyone?
We are also working on an infographic. It's purely in the pre-making stage at this point. I created a document with some key Holacracy elements that will hopefully be moved into a more graphical interface. This is the sheet that was created so far.
09/22/2015
Cheat Sheets anyone?
I changed it, you should have access now. I forgot to do that before I posted the link. Thanks for pointing it out!
09/22/2015
Cheat Sheets anyone?
So I showed the info-graphic that Andrea worked on to a couple of co-workers that don't really know the constitution too too well. They found it a little clumsy/confusing. I'm not sure if doing the entire constitution would be do-able because of all the intricacies that it might need. If we found...
09/23/2015
Circles within Anchor Circle
Anchor Circle purpose is like a big-picture guidance type thing. Sort of where the company is going as a whole. The circle would be a part of the circle but only be able to be filled by members who are worker-owners. The role that would like to be expanded into a circle is the Development Think ...
10/21/2015
Self-Organization Maturity Map
I printed it out on 4 sheets of paper and taped them together to make it poster sized. Worked out pretty well. Was interesting to see where we are in the various categories
10/02/2015
Circles within Anchor Circle
Thank You! This was very help helpful. My coworkers and I really loved the anatomy to business correlation.
11/02/2015
Holacracy in California
It's not specifically Holacracy, but I have been meeting with http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area...Organizations-Group/ for the last couple of months. It's a very interesting group and a lot of different things get brought up and discussed.
11/02/2015
Holacracy in a Retail Environment?
I am actually a worker-owner at Three Stone Hearth. If you have any questions, I would be more than happy to answer them!
01/05/2016
Holacracy and Cooperative Businesses
Hi MichaelI am a worker-owner at Three Stone Hearth. We have been using Holacracy for a few years. We got initial help and continuing support from yWonderWorks Consulting, http://wonderworksconsulting.com/.Let me know if you need anything. I'm always happy to answer questions.
01/05/2016
Holacracy and Cooperative Businesses
I wasn't here during the initial conversation. What I have been told is that the traditional hierarchy of work wasn't really working. No one really wanted to be the "boss" per se. The people at SELC(where Ricardo works), turned the founders on to it. For about a 6 mo. to a year, only the worker-o...
01/06/2016
Holacracy and Cooperative Businesses
In a traditional kitchen setting, it's the Executive Chef's word that is final say on everything. It took some time for people to own their work and get more comfortable in making decisions that ultimately could affect the whole business.
01/06/2016
Holacracy and Co-Operatives
Hi BruceI am a worker-owner at Three Stone Hearth. We have about 46 employees. We have been doing Holacracy for the last 3 years.
02/03/2016
Resources for DIYers
Gamifying Holacracy
02/08/2016
Print Manual
I have also been working on something like this. I've been doing it the slow way of typing everything in GoogleDocs, but that's taking forever. We have a few circles that pretty much never go on GlassFrog unless they're at a meeting. It has been requested to have a binder of all Circles, roles, a...
02/10/2016