Holacracy is a social technology or system of organizational governance in which authority and decision-making are distributed throughout a fractal holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested at the top of a hierarchy. Holacracy has been adopted in for-profit and non-profit organizations in the U.S., France, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK. [Wikipedia] A famous example is Zappos, …
Change Management: Transformers, Lost Souls and Fence Sitters
After Vineet Nayar became the CEO of HCL Technologies, the company became one of the fastest-growing IT services partners on the planet, world renowned for its radical management practices. What did HCLT do to guide such a transformation? In his now legendary book “Employees First, Customers Second”, CEO Vineet Nayar tells an interesting story on how he started immediately travelling …
