Is your organizational structure driving clarity or creating chaos? Discover why most companies confuse management charts with true strategic design.

"Almost two years into using Holacracy as our operating system at Fronteer, our way of working has changed significantly. The structure of raising 'tensions' in tactical and governance meetings has become second nature. Increasingly, we have started to apply this to client projects as well, taking our clients along in our Holacracy approach to working efficiently and effectively."

You'll probably recognize the classic clash between managers and teams: Teams think managers lack vision and don't give enough freedom. Yet managers think teams are not productive nor entrepreneurial enough. And now what?! I personally think Holacracy—a way to work without bosses—works. Having a boss-less organization in which people are fundamentally free to organize their own work greatly reduces stress between them. Allow me to explain.

In 2015, BSL formally implemented self-organization as its new way of organizing itself. Fifteen months later, they are looking back in disbelief. They have become a living and breathing organism with a distinct culture and sense of purpose. How did this happen? This blog attempts an analysis by looking at six distinct time periods in the course of these 15 months.

So you've adopted the Constitution, defined circles, hold regular Governance Meetings, Tactical Meetings, etc. The whole shabam... Cool, you're all set to go! But then someone realizes the old compensation system might be due for an overhaul too.

For most teams, the pandemic either brought colleagues closer or drove them increasingly apart. There are three key reasons why.

Will this gradual evolution (working from home) continue, now that COVID-19 has upended everything? Three trends strike us as particularly vulnerable to reversal amid the panic unleashed by the pandemic.

We supported CitizenM in finding a new way of working that allowed them to hold on to their valued entrepreneurial culture while enabling rapid growth and expansion.

Domains are things the Role may exclusively control and regulate as its property, on behalf of the organization. How does this work?

From his experience with Holacracy, Michael DeAngelo (WaTech, 2017) was able to share many challenges and conclusions, you’ll find the most insightful in this blog.

We’ll explain the list of explicit responsibilities and authority that comes with fulfilling a role.

We frequently get feedback that Tactical meetings follow a strict process. In this blog we want to share a couple of variations you can use within this process.

A Lead Link is the closest you can get to a traditional manager in Holacracy. However, a Lead Link has two unique tools to help him which make it different than a traditional manager.

The idea really came together when the co-founder (Dan), while looking for information about different ways of working, ended up reading the book Reinventing Organizations and started our journey to the illusory “Teal” destination.

Podcast episode of Agile@Scale from bol.com Techlab. “How to drink less coffee and achieve more.”

Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen to the story of Dan Pink, you’ll remember it for a long time!

We do believe that people always grow; growth is a gradual process. To be able to reward people in a way that better fits this philosophy, we transitioned to a linear model. Read more about how Fronteer adapted a new salary structure.

Tom Wujec uses a humorous exercise with spaghetti and marshmallows to demonstrate what effective collaboration looks like.

March 2020: With the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, working remotely may no longer be a luxury but a real necessity. That's why we want to share these tips with you to help you get the most out of virtual meetings!

Working with Holacracy gave Overstappen.nl an innovation boost; they were able to launch the first AI Chatbot in the Energy Market. Read more about their journey and listen to colleagues talk about their experience with Holacracy.