How GlassFrog Got Its Name

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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

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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

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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

Four Common Challenges When Adopting Holacracy

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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

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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