How Medium is building a new kind of company with no managers

Re:How Medium is building a new kind of company with no mana... by jmduke on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @12:28PM (#6167522)

I went into this article thinking it'd be a puff piece, but the details about holacracy are very well done and a lot of the insights are more or less actionable even if you're at a more traditionally-organized company.

Something that doesn't get talked about too much is how popular holocratic structures are in non-profits, either formally or informally.

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Re:How Medium is building a new kind of company with no mana... by nomade0 on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @03:10AM (#6171303)

In my experience, there are less non-profits formally working with Holacracy mostly because they can't afford hiring the consultants to help them adopt it. And it's not easy to adopt on your own - it goes against a lot of oft-entrenched habits. That said I know that many have tried, though I don't know how it's going because I'm not even indirectly involved.

Interestingly, the distinction between for- and non-profit is less relevant with Holacracy. The bottom line is effectively the (explicit, written-down) purpose of the organization. More on that here: http://holacracy.org/blog/for-profit-non-profit-for-purpose

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