One of our Friday Town Hall Meetings, where we discuss anything anyone wants. And where we fixed our momentum. As a startup founder, you’ve either been there or will soon: a slump in your growth. It can triggered by growing too fast, a key team member leaving, a sudden market…

When your colleagues all self-manage, who makes sure everybody adheres to certain rules? Is there some magic that does not require optimal processes to be written down? Are policies an archaic instrument not needed in self-management heaven? Nope. Probably even the contrary: our self-managed organisation is arguably more documented, more…

This is a copy of our internal Rules of Engagement, updated when our Communication Clarity role updates them internally in our helpdesk system. You can read more about communication, rules, policies and processes in this article. PS: as a customer, partner, employee, parent, husband, friend, pet or child of a…

I had no expectations coming to Shanghai to speak on Holacracy, at The First China Organizational Evolution Forum. I was maybe too busy with day to day business, considering my trip something exotic that I just had to experience. Talking to a few dozen Chinese people, I realise I was…

At my company Springest, happiness is not a goal in itself. Long term productivity is, and I believe one leads to the other. We do measure happiness on a monthly basis and people often want to know “does Holacracy, or self-management, make people happy?”. …

Strategy is of course a keystone of management, so it’s also important in the organisational operating system Holacracy. Even more so, since teams and people manage themselves, you need very clear strategy to make sure you all go in the same direction. At Springest we adopted the OKR (Objectives and…

TL;DR: because you think it’s a solution in itself, while it’s merely a framework for organizations to create them in an efficient and controlled manner. Reading an outsider’s perspective, even from management authorities like Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini on Harvard Business Review, it dawned on me. …

Last week, Andy Doyle from Medium announced they won’t use Holacracy anymore to run their company. It’s great that such a visible company was so open about both adopting and dropping it. Andy cited 3 specific reasons for dropping it, I’d like to reflect on them based on my own…