Holacracy is the integral operating system for the integral organization. It is a generative practice that brings energy, innovation, consciousness, intentionality and a whole-system perspective to all aspects of leadership, governance, decision-making and capacity building.
Organization Evolved: Introducing Holacracy
This overview of Holacracy frames the need for a new "organizational operating system" and shows how Holacracy's end-to-end approach provides the capacities needed to thrive in today's world.
Executive Summary
Over the past two decades, dozens of thought-leaders have pointed the way to new capacities organizations must develop to thrive amidst our 21st century challenges. These visionaries are highlighting the limits of our conventional views of organization and leadership, and offering a glimpse of new possibilities available to us – if we’re able to make the leap. Yet it has proven difficult to sustain a whole-system transformation by simply applying isolated principles and practices within our conventional frame. To really achieve the promises of the emerging new paradigm, we need a fundamentally new operating system for our organizations – a core upgrade to the way we govern, manage, and execute work.
Holacracy offers a comprehensive practice for governing and running our organizations. Its transformative structure and processes integrate the collective wisdom of people throughout the company, while aligning the organization with its broader purpose and a more organic way of operating. Holacracy takes the principles, ideas, and emerging mindset articulated by many cutting-edge thought leaders, and instills them in the actual structures and processes of the organization. This grounds them in practice and brings them to life, and the result is dramatically increased agility, transparency, innovation, and accountability.
