Holacracy as the Next Startup Corporate Structure

Ev Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, has a new company called Medium where there are no managers. This idea of a leaderless organization isn’t new but it’s also far from commonplace. Perhaps the best known organization without managers is Valve Software, which published an amazing employee handbook that describes how it works. FRC Review has a new post up where they outline how it works at Medium without managers using this idea of a Holacracy approach to corporate structure.

Here are some of the key takeaways for Holacracy from the FRC Review article:

• No people managers. Maximum autonomy.
• Organic expansion. When a job gets too big, hire another person.
• Tension resolution. Identify issues people are facing, write them down, and resolve them systematically.
• Make everything explicit – from vacation policies to decision makers in each area.
• Distribute decision-making power and discourage consensus seeking.
• Eliminate all the extraneous factors that worry…