September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
374 pages
10h 11m
English
One of the newer management ideas currently trending is something called holacracy. Supporters insist that it is a new way of running an organization that removes power from a hierarchy and distributes it across clear roles. These roles can be executed anonymously, without the micromanagement of a boss. A holacratic organization (or information technology [IT] department or team) comes with a clear set of rules and processes for how a team breaks up its work, and defines its roles and expectations, as shown in Table 5.1, which compares a holacratic team with a traditional one.
Shared leadership models have been around for quite some time. Joe Raelin (2008) was very specific in his definition of the shared ...