The Wharton School
For Zappos’ Tony Hsieh, Holacracy is the Right Fit
8 min · · The e-commerce giant’s CEO explains why self-managing organizations like Zappos are the only ones that can survive into the future. · Shared by 3, including Patrick Scheuerer
Insider Business
How Zappos determines salaries in Holacracy
3 min · · Under Zappos' new Holacracy system, employees earn badges representing their roles and skills. · Shared by 5, including Philippe Surber
zapposinsights.com
Holacracy - Flattening the Organization Structure and Busting Bureaucracy
8 min · · Learn how Zappos is getting rid of "Managers" and eliminating bureaucracy to increase productivity and adaptability. · Shared by 8
Insider Business
Here's how the 'self-management' system that Zappos is using actually works
11+ min · · Holacracy is an alternative management structure that does not rely on manager roles or job titles. · Shared by 14, including kp, ̗̀ ̗̀Manuel Marquina
The Business of Fashion
Inside the Zappos Holacracy
8 min · · The Amazon-owned clothing and footwear retailer has adopted a new-fangled approach to management. Is it working? · Shared by 6, including Matthieu de Luze
Asana
The story behind Zappos’s shift to Holacracy
5 min · · Turns out, structuring an organization around self-managed teams leads to increased effectiveness on a per employee basis. Here's Zappo's story. · Shared by 11
timkastelle.org
Zappos Just Pulled Off the Boldest Change Management Move Ever
20+ min · · Zappos is undertaking a fascinating experiment in change management. It's important to evaluate this separately from the experiment with the management structure Holacracy that they are trying at the same time. · Shared by 10, including Chris Messina, Bertrand Maltaverne
Insider Business
Tony Hsieh explains how Zappos rebounded from employee exodus
15+ min · · We sat down with Tony Hsieh to discuss the tumultuous year his e-commerce company emerged from, as well as where it's headed next. · Shared by 15, including Mark Kaigwa, Mo Schuster, Marcus Kuhn
medium.com
Exclusive: Zappos CEO Responds To Reports Of Employee Departures After Radical Management…
5 min · · (Ferenstein Wire) — Zappos was blindsided with a slew of recent stories reporting that a new radical management experiment was backfiring… · Shared by 13, including stephtara@octodon.social, Johannes Lenz
Harvard Business Review
The Zappos Holacracy Experiment
13+ min · · Ethan Bernstein, Harvard Business School professor, and John Bunch, holacracy implementation lead at Zappos, discuss the online retailer’s transition to a flat, self-managed organization. They are the coauthors of the HBR article “Beyond the Holacracy Hype.” · Shared by 12
The New York Times
At Zappos, Pushing Shoes and a Vision
14+ min · · Tony Hsieh, C.E.O. of Zappos, is on an uphill mission to remake the company’s culture by banning the boss. · Shared by 19, including John Battelle
The Washington Post
Zappos says goodbye to bosses
5 min · · The unusual approach is called a "holacracy," and the online retailer is the largest company so far to try out the new organizational structure. · Shared by 15, including Van Riper
Inc.
Zappos Goes Flat, Gets Rid of Managers
2 min · · The trendsetter of quirky corporate culture is headed toward a massive restructuring. Could it work for your business, too? · Shared by 9, including Mathias Menzl
Quartz
Internal Memo: Zappos is offering severance to employees who aren’t all in with Holacracy
19+ min · · Get on board, or hit the door. · Shared by 16
The New Republic
What's It Like to Work at a Company With No Bosses?
20+ min · · Inside Zappos' radical experiment to reinvent the American workplace. · Shared by 16
Quartz
Zappos is either the future of management or a social experiment gone awry
16+ min · · An exclusive look inside Zappos, a year after the shift to Holacracy began. · Shared by 30, including Alf Rehn, Sara Usinger