Currently, hundreds of companies are using Holacracy, a new system of organizational governance that distributes decision-making authority to self-organizing teams. While Zappos tends to dominate the ...

Brian Robertson never felt quite at home in a traditional company. As he describes in his book, Holacracy, he felt the bureaucracy, politics and long, painful meetings made getting anything done an ...

Zappos, the online clothing retailer and Amazon subsidiary, has spent the past year and a half conducting a peculiar experiment. It’s called holacracy, and it’s the somewhat radical notion that the ...

Since last summer, Zappos has been operating as a full-blown "Holacracy," an experimental way of running a company that gets rid of traditional manager roles and job titles. It's intended to eliminate ...

One important reason why there are so many very badly managed firms in the world is the widespread belief that management should be the responsibility of a few people at the top. The future of ...

More than 200 employees at Zappos have opted to buy out of the company rather than ride out the transition to pure Holacracy, reports Fastcompany.com. (Tweet this) Holacracy is a management style that ...

As you've probably heard by now, Zappos is in for a radical restructuring. The online retailer is nixing all job titles and managers as it shifts to a super-flat structure known as "Holacracy." When ...

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