Holacracy Community of Practice Archive

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Satellite offices - new circle, or new roles within ...

01/02/2017

We're a small company (10 people) opening a satellite office abroad, which will quickly increase our size by 50% or more. Right now our entire org exists within one circle, and has done so fairly successfully so far. We're wanting to make sure the structure is appropriate for the new office, but ...

Policy Adherence

09/21/2017

We currently have an issue of rampant ignorance of, or lack of adherence to, existing policies. Some at high levels. Today in Governance I proposed a "Policy Adherence" policy, and the creation of a "Policy Adherence" role to implement the policy. It feels overly authoritarian, but I'm not quite ...

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Satellite offices - new circle, or new roles within existing circles?

01/03/2017

Thanks [@mention:449833773917801859]... we're in a general state of trying to decide if/when to add circles vs. keeping things simple as they are now, understanding that adding new circles will necessitate the addition of new lead links/rep links/facilitators/secretaries, etc. Trying to avoid t...

Holacracy in Distributed Teams?

03/16/2017

Hi [@mention:550748956143473957] - we're an entirely remote organization, currently across 4 time zones and two continents... and working through the difficulties of maintaining connection and regular practices. Our US-based holacracy structure I feel is strong, but I'm working on how even to pre...

Policy Adherence

09/26/2017

Thanks everyone for the responses. Great questions and thoughts. If I'm honest I think the root is somewhat endemic and sits with lack of understanding/accountability in certain key roles. People are hesitant to take individual action [@mention:449411339497350002] because they think they'll get "...