Sentences with phrase «holacracy at»

And for some employees, the weirdness of Holacracy at Zappos is a step too far, even for a company with a long tradition of weirdness.

Robertson gave a presentation on Holacracy at the 2012 Conscious Capitalism CEO Summit in Austin.

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The employees were introduced to the fundamentals of Robertson's system — covered in detail in «Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World» — including giving up traditional job titles and working on multiple tasks rather than at a specific job.

Bunch said that he believes a fully functioning Holacracy will make Zappos employees happier and the company more innovative, but he's looking at it as a long - term project.

In the fall of 2014, the fallout of a 30 - person layoff at Hsieh's Downtown Project, which was also structured as a Holacracy, was a blow to his public image.

Meanwhile at Zappos, an employee whose team recently adopted Holacracy said that the lack of team managers has caused them to drift helplessly, and that they find support with the transition to be lacking.

According to the post, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, the originator of the company's commitment to quirkiness, announced at an all - hands meeting in November that the 1,500 employee company would be restructuring into what is known as a «Holacracy,» in which there are no job titles and no managers.

Holacracy is ostensibly an attempt to change that — or, at least, provide a veil of empowerment (or some combination of the two).

At face value, Holacracy is a business philosophy in Vegas's tight - knit Downtown community of entrepreneurs.

One night, over dinner with Hsieh and his friends at Carson Kitchen, a new high - end restaurant in what was once the rundown John E. Carson hotel for men, I lost track of the conversation, reached for a pork slider, considered sipping my Fernet shot, and suddenly realized they were fiercely debating how to explain to me a Holacracy concept called «circle elections.»

Holacracy Mike Pepi For his contribution to the exhibition catalog for Office Space, curated by Ceci Moss at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Mike Pepi dissects Holacracy, the new management philosophy sweeping Silicon Valley.