Organizational Enlightenment

Buddhist Geeks · Jul 25, 2015 · 23m

We’re joined again this week by organizational expert, and founder of HolacracyOne, Brian Robertson. Brian begins by describing the pit-falls of both strict hierarchy and consensus based organizational structures, pointing out that in both cases the systems are fused with the people. He contrasts that with the Holacracy structure, which employs several methods designed such that the value of both top-down and bottom-up wisdom can be incorporated into an organization.

We then discuss the challenges of implementing a system like Holacracy, including the difficult “ego shock” that it can have on…