Publication Type: Articles
Articles are blog posts discussing self-management and related topics.
Holacracy Basics: Metaphors for Understanding Governance
A map doesn’t tell you which route you should take — it just gives you the information to make the decision for yourself. The Map is Not the Territory Normally, I like my coaching to be concrete, but in this post I’d like to share several orienting metaphors to help early practitioners understand, conceptually, what governance is … Read more
Intervening as a Holacracy Coach
A good coach helps others get where they want to go. Note: This is one of the longest posts I’ve written, but each piece is necessary to understand the whole. For readers looking for a tactical meeting equivalent to “A Better Way to Facilitate Governance Meetings,” this content will be of particular interest. The 3 Ps: … Read more
Holacracy Basics: Understanding Projects and Project Teams
While the Holacracy constitution gives you guidance on roles, circles, and accountabilities, it’s less clear when it comes to coordinating and completing project work. This is intentional because the constitution can’t prescribe how this should be done in every organization. Yet, this is understandably confusing for new practitioners because while they are learning about specific … Read more
Holacracy Basics: Understanding Objections
Objection testing is like scientific exploration. It seems hard because it is hard.
Holacracy Basics: Understanding Integration
Integrating objections is at the heart of the governance meeting process. We don’t want to solve one tension only to create another — we might as well not even have the meeting. So, integration is there to make sure we always move forward. More specifically, the goal of integration is to amend the proposal, one objection at … Read more
Holacracy Basics: Integrating a Not Valid Governance Output (NVGO) Objection
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Holacracy Basics: How to Make Sure Someone Does Something
We all have a right to make choices — so how do you make sure everyone is going in the same direction? Whenever I see metrics used as targets or accountabilities that start with “Ensuring…” or “Achieving…” I realize there is some deeper confusion about how Holacracy works. Some confusion is because practitioners try using accountabilities for … Read more