holacracy

English

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Etymology

From hol- +‎ -cracy.

Noun

holacracy (countable and uncountable, plural holacracies)

  1. (business, often capitalized) A decentralised system of organizational governance with autonomous and symbiotic teams.
    • 2015 November 19, Steve Rose, “The future is round: why modern architecture turned doughnut-shaped”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      Now, [Simon] Denny is scrutinising how similar hacking culture is to “contemporary radical management practices”. Chief among them is “holacracy”, or rather, Holacracy® – a public idea that’s also a privately owned concept, which is about right for this strange new world. For those not up on their radical management slang, Holacracy is a “complete system for self-organisation” that replaces traditional hierarchies with a supposedly more efficient system of autonomous teams of employees called “circles”.
    • 2025 May 3, Harry Dempsey, David Keohane, “Can you run a company as a perfect free market?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
      Many such attempts have centred around greater self-organisation and autonomy for teams and individuals, be it Linux's open-sourced operating system, Spotify's self-organising “squads”, or the online retailer Zappo's more radical “holacracy” philosophy of decentralised decision-making.

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