Post-Hierarchical Organization with Empirical Process Control

1. Holacracy @ARCA
Post-Hierarchical
Organization with Empirical
Process Control
@jjschreuder iterationsofjason.comjason.schreuder@gmail.com

2. 100 year old management
theories from the Industrial
Revolution will not survive in
the Digital Age and as we enter
the age of IoT and
cyber-physical systems.
Organizations are complex,
adaptive, human systems.
From Industry 1.0 to
Industry 4.0

3. Crave a new system or
organization based on the
peer-to-Peer architecture
they grew up with.
4.6M 26-year-old “echo
boomers” will define the
world of work in the 2020’s.
A Word on Millennials

4. “
The fundamental task of management remains the
same: to make people capable of joint performance
through common goals, common values, the right
structure, and the training and development they
need to perform and to respond to change.
-Peter Drucker

5. Visionary Companies
Conflict Resolution
Protocols
Self-Organized
Project Teams
Decentralized,
Autonomous Teams
Self-Set PayPeer-Based
Rewards
Distributed Wholeness
& Alignment

6. Holacracy
◉ Social Systems Design
◉ A Cultural Operating System
◉ Agile Governance
◉ Continuous Participatory Change

7. Social System Design
Mechanistic Systems
◉ Narrow & myopic definition of success
◉ Design for control over people &
environment
◉ Design to resist change
Conscious Living Systems
◉ Success defined as net contribution
to well-being of life
◉ Design to actualize full potential of
people & environment
◉ Design to consciously self-evolve

8. The thing about an Operating System is
that you’re never ever supposed to see
it. And the only mission in life of an
Operating System is to help those
programs run. So an Operating System
never does anything on its own; it only
steps in and tries to make it easy to do
your job.
— Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux
A Cultural Operating System

9. Agile Governance
◉ Open Allocation for
Authority Distribution
◉ Double-Linking
◉ Advice Process &
Governance
◉ Meeting Protocols

10. Continuous Participatory Change
◉ Invitation
◉ Transparency
◉ Leadership Storytelling
◉ Empirical Process Control

11. “
The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the
freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some
skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the
long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is
expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote.
–Tom Kelley, General Manager, IDEO

12. Any questions ?
Thanks!
@jjschreuder iterationsofjason.comjason.schreuder@gmail.com