holacratie register-accountants 11-12-2015

1. When it comes to
organization, it often
seems like there’s
really only ...

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3. Organizational
structure
Crisis management
Project management
Compensation and incentives
Staff functions
Decision making
Dismissal
Conflict management
Performance
management
Investments
Information flows
Meetings
Job titles and job descriptions
1. Management

4. Safe space
Office spaces
Recruitment
Compensation &
incentives
Working hours
Storytelling
Dismissal
Conflict resolution
Feedback &
Evaluations
On-boarding
Storytelling
Meetings
Job titles and job descriptions
2. Wholeness

5. Strategy
Performance
management
Change management
Planning & budgets
Recruitment
Competition
On-boarding
Profit & market share
Targets
Product management
& Innovation
Marketing
3. Evolutionary purpose

6. How are you organized?
For 99% of organizations the
answer is “through a
hierarchy”…
… where the management
hierarchy was invented over 100
years ago …
… with very little innovation
since then

7.  ~70% of employees are unhappy at
work
 Too many good ideas are muffled
 There is less and less time to
become a sustainable business
 There is a significant space to harm
society
In our current age of acceleration the imperfections of how we organize
are now visible
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… which makes imperfections visible
on how we organize
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9. Disclaimer 1: explaining a new paradigm is very hard with our current
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10. From centralized to distributed authority

11. Rapid iterations – creating a trusted & forward looking operating
system based on dynamic steering
Predict, command & control
Mission, vision & strategy
Large special initiatives
Budget planning & scenario analysis
Roadmaps & milestones
Meeting cycle stakeholder driven with
SteerCos boards, MTs
KPIs & targets
Dynamic steering
Purpose statement & strategy heuristics
Rapid, small iteration operation &
governance iterations
Transparent & granular projects
Dynamic resource allocation
High frequency metrics
Next action & outcome driven mindset

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13. Hierarchical
decision
making
ConsensusDistributed
(or with
advice)
Lets not move all the way towards consensus

14. Holacracy is just an operating system, not cool by itself…

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With an emphasis on getting work done and using tension to improve
getting work done

16. Source: SparkOptimus
RoleCircleOrganization

17. Governance
(working ON the
organization)
Tactical /
Operations
(working IN the
organization)
RoleRole
... And evolving with short, disciplined cycles
Role
Accountability Accountability
Project Project
Action Action Action Action

18. Tension: the
perceived gap
between how things
are and how they
could be

19. Autonomy
Tie your own laces

20. Tools to process tensions

21. Holacracy makes the “rules of the game” explicit
Effectively, Holacracy is a design
language: the core of Holacracy is an
explicit set of rules / guidelines on how
the organization’s operating system
works

22. Where is the human side of it?
Personal space Role space
Tribe space Org space
In warm cultures love
and affection are
abused to get things
done…
Within the right
system people can
just take care of
themself

23. Too many good ideas are muffled
“More organizations die of
indigestion than starvation”
- David Packard Co-founder HP
http://energized.org
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