Publication Type: Articles
Articles are blog posts discussing self-management and related topics.
Freedom and Growth through Holacracy
I want to share a different story, about the personal benefit of Holacracy.
How GlassFrog Got Its Name
GlassFrog is as old as Holacracy. In fact, it predates our first written Constitution, which shows how vital it has been to making Holacracy transparent, accessible, and well, frankly, usable. For those who haven’t used GlassFrog, here’s the short version: It’s a cloud-based tool that lets you visually navigate your company’s structure to see who does what. … Read more
Enhancing Holacracy-driven Environments with the Use of OKRs
The goal of this article is to provide you with a better understanding of how OKRs (Objective and Key Results) may be used in Holacracy in order to enhance focus and alignment across the organization and keep role autonomy. In Holacracy-driven organizations people experience a lot of autonomy at work. Each person can come up … Read more
Holacracy-style Hiring, Part II: A Collective Process of Roles
Holacracy doesn’t come with a predefined approach to hiring. Each self-organizing company develops their own custom approach. In this article, Anne Nynke shares a glimpse of the hiring that takes place at Springest — a Holacracy-driven organization based in the Netherlands. A couple of weeks ago, we shared how hiring works at Devhouse Spindle. Now you can see for yourself … Read more
Self-Management & Human Growth: Two Sides of a Coin (Part 1)
Beyond The Structured Holacracy Process
Four Common Challenges When Adopting Holacracy
Since we began to share our journey through real life stories, the number of organizations that we’ve co-operated with has reached over 40! The benefits of change that we’ve been observing inspire us to continue our mission, time and time again. Throughout this time, we’ve also aggregated knowledge about the struggles associated with the transition from … Read more
Tip: There is always more than one way to process a tension
When an organization changes from being more traditionally structured to self-organizing, it may be tricky to understand what a tension looks like and how you can process it. This article draws upon practical experience in a self-organizing model called Holacracy. Before we move to the main topic, let’s see how one can discover a tension. … Read more
What kind of impact can Holacracy have from an HR perspective?
A Former Manager Shares Her Experience
About the continuous evolution of her team, lowered stress factors, and more Holacracy-related topics.
Debbie from Springest Shares Her Story