Aug 5, 2015 · Holacracy isn’t a term invented by Zappos, rather, it’s a movement bent on reshaping corporate America. It’s about self-organizing, so instead of waiting around for a boss to tell you what...

Jul 28, 2016 · Ethan Bernstein, Harvard Business School professor, and John Bunch, holacracy implementation lead at Zappos, discuss the online retailer’s transition to a flat, self-managed organization.

Jul 21, 2015 · Zappos eliminated managers and embraced a system of self-governance known as holacracy. Sacramento Bee/TNS/Landov Jacqui Gonzalez once spent an hour and a half on the phone helping a...

Jan 15, 2016 · Backtrack to 2013: Tony Hsieh, Zappos’s CEO, started promoting a new management structure called holacracy. It’s a setup that’s supposed to encourage collaboration by eliminating workplace...

Nov 30, 2020 · Tony Hsieh, the retired CEO of Zappos who died suddenly last week, was a visionary thinker who had an obsession with company culture, according to his friends and colleagues. Hsieh, who served...

Jan 29, 2020 · It has done away with its at-times rigidly (and ironically) bureaucratic meetings and brought back managers, while retaining its circular hierarchy, a key artifact of holacracy. Zappos...

Created by former programmer Brian Robertson in 2007, Holacracy is an alternative organizational structure and system of self-management. For Zappos, this was the operational piece of the puzzle to their larger goal of becoming more city-like. “Holacracy is just one element of that,” John says.

Jan 30, 2020 · In 2014, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh began shifting his company’s management structure from a standard hierarchy to a holacracy, a decentralized system meant to distribute decision-making...

Jan 1, 2017 · Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos sent his employees an ultimatum in early 2015 – embrace the self-management philosophy Holacracy or leave the company. Eighteen percent of the staff chose to leave...

Dec 28, 2015 · What Zappos has done with Holacracy and Where They Are Going; The Difference between Empowerment and Distributed Authority; Holacracy and the New Internal Job Board; New Organizational...