Just ask Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, who has taken the ambitious step of flattening the corporate organization of his 4,000-employee company, smashing hierarchies and prioritizing teams. This month Zappos ...

Currently, hundreds of companies are using Holacracy, a new system of organizational governance that distributes decision-making authority to self-organizing teams. While Zappos tends to dominate the ...

The CEO relinquishes power, changes compensation to a “badge” system of rewards for skills and has “governance” sessions in place of daily meetings. Welcome to the trademarked workplace known as ...

As we head towards a future that demands more transparency and autonomy for workers, the term holacracy (an organization structure that eschews traditional hierarchy in favor of a bossless or “flat” ...

Every day we are presented with new headlines that touch on the future of work and how things like robots, artificial intelligence and millennials will impact or disrupt industries. In most of these ...

For years, employee engagement at Intrust IT, a business technology provider, has been high. Having high engagement and low turnover is no small feat for a fast-growing IT company, “and we do it all ...

I recently spent a month embedded at a consultancy called Undercurrent, watching how they help organizations become more adaptive and responsive. It’s a transformative concept I’ve been thinking about ...

Extant Structure is an indication of the way things are done and what is actually operating Requisite Structure is what the company aspires its structure to be According to Holacracy's founder Brian ...

Alexis Gonzales-Black doesn't have a job title. If she did, she'd have to get rid of it. At online shoe and apparel retailer Zappos, her job is to help eliminate all of the company's job titles.