Holacracy
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CORE DEFINITION
Holacracy is a method of decentralized management and organizational governance, which claims to distribute authority and decision-making through a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested in a management hierarchy. Holacracy has been adopted by for-profit and non-profit organizations in several countries. This can be seen as a greater movement within organisational design to cop
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Holacracy is a method of decentralized management and organizational governance, which claims to distribute authority and decision-making through a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested in a management hierarchy.
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Holacracy views the organization as a self-organizing system composed of nested 'circles': each circle has clear responsibility boundaries (domains) and roles, which are set as needed, held by people but decoupled from individuals. Governance modifies the constitution through an open 'propose-clarify-integrate' process, and decisions are made by 'no reasonable objection', reducing reliance on authority and personal consensus, allowing power to flow with roles rather than positions.
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