Holacracy Community of Practice Archive

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Holacracy in construction, manufacturing or project ...

02/17/2017

Do you know of any organizations in construction, manufacturing or project management that are using Holacracy? I see many examples in consulting/professional services and software development but not many in more concrete fields. I'm collecting evidence that Holacracy is a workable, and even exc...

Valid Objections?

02/20/2017

I want to be clearer about what might be a valid objection in terms of things that degrade clarity or work against the principles of Holacracy, but for which there is not necessarily a concrete example of causing harm. Example A: There was a proposal to add an accountability using the verb "assur...

Policies for Roles rather than Circles

02/26/2017

I notice that the Constitution provides for both Circles and Domains to create Policies to control their functions and activities. But I don't see that Roles have this ability. If a Role wished to document the processes they use within their Accountabilities, would this simply be done as a Note i...

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Policies for Roles rather than Circles

02/27/2017

Thank you [@mention:449974511354699742] and [@mention:544274267266420910]. Between the two of you I have my answer. So what I will do then is create a Note in the Role which gives more information about how the Role is performed, but is not technically a Policy since it does not control a Domain...

policy clarification

03/01/2017

Hi Geoff,We got deeply into this topic on another current thread if you would like to read that. It was very enlightening for me. Angela

What are the benefits of Holacracy?

04/10/2017

Thanks for working on this book, Brian. I can share my point of view.What I was hoping to gain from operating as a Holacracy was to able to protect the organization from the influence of self-interested agendas and to be able to allow freedom to operate (which I highly value, as a long-time self-...

Criteria for assessing self-organization readiness of an organization

04/10/2017

The senior leaders in a Holacracy must be operating robustly at a 4.5/Teal/Systemic level of development. The STAGES model is an accurate and practical way to assess leaders and teams. I would recommend that anyone considering implementing a Holacracy do this assessment work first, to avoid terri...

What are the benefits of Holacracy?

04/17/2017

Brian K Haney posted: If I can paraphrase your motivation to implement Holacracy, it sounds like you were trying to vaccinate your organization against cancerous infection from external stakeholders that might not share your vision. Is that a fair re-statement?I'm curious. What leadership qualiti...

How does creating new role make the work done?

05/01/2017

Adding to Tom's response, could it also be that you do not have the right resources to fill this role? For some people, testing is just so boring that they would resist doing it, while for others it is a easy job quickly done.

Query to the Holacracy community

05/15/2017

Thanks for posting, Mike. I believe you address some very core issues affecting the decision to implement Holacracy or not. I have also been on a journey of investigation with Holacracy over the past year, and I concur that there is no substitute for training and experience ...particularly experi...