Holocracy - Purposeful Organization through Social TechnologyHolacracy is a comprehensive practice for structuring, governing, and running an organization. It replaces today’s top-down predict-and-control paradigm with a new way of achieving control by distributing power. It is a new “operating system” that instills rapid evolution in the core processes of an organization.Management Without Managers -- Holacracy places the seat of organizational power in an explicit process, one which organizes around an explicit purpose. This allows emergent behavior of the whole system, without being controlled by either a single heroic leader or even the collective group.HolacracyOneH1HolacracyOne is a legally Holacracy-powered organization, with no employees (only partners), no managers (just distributed authority), and no owners controlling it (just investors along for the ride). All power vests in the Holacracy Constitution, and all partners take part in the organization's governance. [See roles at http://holacracy.org/constitution]Agile and purposeful organizationTo radically change how organizations are structured, decisions are made, and power is distributed.TensionsTensions Drive Adaptation -- Tension, n.: The felt-sense of a specific gap between current reality and a sensed potential. Holacracy provides channels so anyone who senses a tension can process it into organizational evolution. People become the sensors of a conscious organization, driving its continual evolution.AdaptationAccountabilityCrystal Clear Accountabilities -- With Holacracy at play, if an expectation isn’t explicitly defined via a governance process, no one has a right to expect it. This removes the need for organizational politics and centralized power to work around lack of clarity. The substitute is a clear process to identify what expectations are needed to express the organization’s purpose.PurposePurpose As Bottom Line -- The Holacracy governance process is not governance “of the people, by the people, and for the people” – it is governance of the organization, through the people, for the purpose. It enables the organization to find and express its deepest creative capacity.Creative CapacityOrganizational Design[Apply] dynamic steering to organizational design.1Lean & Adaptable Organization -- Dynamic steering applied to organizational design. The process focuses on minimally sufficient improvements, to address concrete tensions and move forward.Meetings[Conduct] effective meetings.2Highly Effective Meetings -- Different meeting processes for Operations & Governance guarantee a rigorous focus on the work. The result: clear outcomes, no waste of time, no ego domination.Authority & LeadershipDistribute authority and leadership functions.3Clearly Distributed Authority -- Managers are no longer needed, the leadership function is now distributed. The result: faster, more appropriate decisions by more engaged and autonomous workers.Work[Perform] purpose-driven work.4Purpose Driven Work -- Beyond stakeholders and shareholders, Purpose is the bottom line of holacratic organizations. And it's not just talk: the purpose is structurally reflected in everyday work!2013-10-05http://holacracy.org/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net