Outvoting the Low Voltage Light

Outvoting the Low Voltage Light

How Holacracy® Was Born

Brian Robertson
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How Holacracy was born

I recently spoke at a TEDx event about a transformative experience for me — one that came when I nearly crashed an airplane. I was a student pilot, and shortly into a solo flight my “Low Voltage” light came on. Every other instrument was telling me “all is well”, so I ignored it; just like we do in organizational life all the time, when one lone “instrument” (a human) senses something that no one else does. Ignoring a key instrument proved to be a very bad decision when flying an airplane, and helped catalyze my search for organizational approaches that didn’t suffer from the same blindness; how can an organization fully harness each of us human instruments, without “outvoting the low voltage light”? Check out the TEDx video below for more…


This blog post was originally published on July 9, 2012, at http://holacracy.org/blog/outvoting-the-low-voltage-light


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Brian Robertson
Brian Robertson
Brian J. Robertson created Holacracy and founded HolacracyOne, the organization that is training people and companies all over the world in this new system. Robertson had previously launched a successful software company, where he first introduced the principles that would become Holacracy, making him not just a management theorist, but someone who has successfully implemented a holacracy-powered organization. He lives in Philadelphia.

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