Holacracy | Social Technology for Purposeful Organization

Exquisite Organization

Holacracy is a comprehensive practice for structuring, governing, and running an organization. It replaces today’s top-down predict-and-control paradigm with a new way of distributing power and achieving control. It is a new “operating system” which instills rapid evolution in the core processes of an organization.

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Shifting Power

Holacracy places the seat of organizational power in an explicit process, one which organizes around an explicit purpose. This allows emergent behavior of the whole system, without being controlled by either a single heroic leader or even the collective group.

On Empowerment

On Governance

Harnessing Tensions

Tension, n.: The felt-sense of a specific gap between current reality and a sensed potential.

Holacracy provides channels so anyone who senses a tension can process it into organizational evolution. People become the sensors of a conscious organization, driving its continual evolution.

On Processing Tensions

Obsoleting Politics

With Holacracy at play, if an expectation isn’t explicitly defined via a governance process, no one has a right to expect it. This removes the need for organizational politics and centralized power to work around lack of clarity. The substitute is a clear process to identify what expectations are needed to express the organization’s purpose.

On Obsoleting Politics

Purpose-Driven Organization

The Holacracy governance process is not governance “of the people, by the people, and for the people” – it is governance of the organization, through the people, for the purpose. It liberates an organization to find and express its deepest creative capacity – and us to find a healthy relationship with it that honors our own.

On Purpose as Driver

On Role vs. Soul

Inside HolacracyOne

HolacracyOne is a legally Holacracy-powered organization, with no employees (only partners), no managers (just distributed authority), and no owners controlling it (just investors along for the ride). All power vests in the Holacracy Constitution, and all partners take part in the organization's governance.

Legal Structure & Governance

Blog post on the Legal Structure

Holacracy is a real-world-tested social technology for agile and purposeful organization. It radically changes how an organization is structured, how decisions are made, and how power is distributed. Holacracy leads to...


	Lean & Adaptable Organization Dynamic steering applied to organizational design. The process focuses on minimally sufficient improvements, to address concrete tensions and move forward. Learn more
	Highly Effective Meetings Different meeting processes for Operations & Governance guarantee a rigorous focus on the work. The result: clear outcomes, no waste of time, no ego domination. Learn more
	Clearly Distributed Authority Managers are no longer needed, the leadership function is now distributed. The result: faster, more appropriate decisions by more engaged and autonomous workers. Learn more
	Purpose Driven Work Beyond stakeholders and shareholders, Purpose is the bottom line of holacratic organizations. And it's not just talk: the purpose is structurally reflected in everyday work! Learn more