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Self-Managing Operations in the News
Self-Managing Operations in the News
News from around the world about self-managing organizations
News from around the world about self-managing organizations
The Age of the Self-Managed Organization
The Age of the Self-Managed Organization
December 26, 2014
The Great Work Cultures initiative is bringing together individuals, organizations, and networks to co-create a new norm for work cultures that optimizes worker effectiveness and human happiness. This blog entry delineates how self-managing organizations are fractal in nature.
HBR Reviews Holacracy
HBR Reviews Holacracy
July-August 2016
Harvard Business Review covers the Holacracy operating system and the challenges that some companies have when adopting this model. In contrast to Holacracy, the planning workshops that FractalOps offers allow organizations to design their own processes and practices for self-management.
Zappos Adopts Holacracy
Zappos Adopts Holacracy
June 3, 2015
Brian J. Robertson created the Holacracy system of self-management. (His organization is one of those in Frederic Laloux's research.) Zappos is the largest organization to adopt the Holacracy operating system, and this Business Insider article provides an overview that describes their approach.
What We Got Wrong About Self-Management: Embracing Natural Hierarchy at Work
What We Got Wrong About Self-Management: Embracing Natural Hierarchy at Work
August 15 2015
Buffer is one of the organizations in Laloux's research that adopted self-management with a seat-of-the-pants approach. In this article, Leo Widrich discusses how a natural hierarchy is a preferred approach to a completely flat organizational structure.
A Look at the Self-Managed Corporate Structure
A Look at the Self-Managed Corporate Structure
January 12, 2017
This article is by Agile experts Jim Mruzik and Don Peters of WWT Asynchrony Labs describes how self-management flattens out organizations and makes individuals accountable to their personal job responsibility, rather than a boss at corporate.