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Margaux - 30/05/2016 Categories : Collective Intelligence, Distributed Authority, Dynamic Steering, Governance, Manager 0 comments
Brian Robertson’s book on a management system with better performances has just come out in French in a translation to which we contributed greatly in order to ensure a consistent message. This book leaves no one indifferent: a clear organizational structure for a distributed decision-making process, bye-bye to the “little dictators” and hello to intrapreneurship -
Nicolas Ochem - 01/05/2016 Categories : Governance, Implementation, Manager, Testimonial/Interview 0 comments
There is plenty to read, see and hear on the liberated company concept. But is it the company or rather the employees who need liberating? There is a lot of talk about changing the “traditional” managerial model, but do companies that have undergone a form of liberation have a real model to offer, or just the personal stories of pioneering entrepreneurs who took the risk of turning part of their power over to their employees? -
Margaux - 12/04/2016 Categories : Collective Intelligence, Distributed Authority, Governance, Manager, Meetings 0 comments
Since the “Bonheur au Travail (French)” (Workplace Happiness) report was broadcast by ARTE, the “teal organization” (referring to Frédéric Laloux’s book Reinventing Organizations) phenomenon appears to have become all the rage. Chronoflex, Poult, IMA Tech, FAVI, Harley Davidson, Lippi, Michelin, KIABI, WL Gore, Auchan, etc. are all mentioned as being “teal organizations”, a term that is sometimes mistakenly confused with “Holacracy”, a new managerial technology implemented at Zappos, Scarabée Biocoop, talkSpirit... -
Bernard Marie Chiquet - 01/10/2015 Categories : Distributed Authority, Governance, Manager 0 comments
I read more and more articles written by people who see hierarchy everywhere and reject the idea that we can live without it. I want to clarify this idea a little bit by calling a cat, a cat! The belief that “we need a boss otherwise it won’t work” has a thick skin. It makes us suffer and prevents independence through construction. -
Philippe Pinault - 29/09/2015 Categories : Governance, Implementation, Manager, Testimonial/Interview 0 comments
The hardest thing I can see about switching to Holacracy is unlearning everything we have learned about normal operations in an organization and switching to a different approach that gives rise to many legitimate questions. -
Margaux - 25/08/2015 Categories : Distributed Authority, Governance, Implementation, Testimonial/Interview, Training 0 comments
In November 2014, Scarabée Biocoop, a cooperative of four (4) stores, three (3) restaurants and one (1) delicatessen trade, decided to experiment Holacracy, a new managerial technology, with iGi Partners during two days: Taster and Discovery Days. This 31-years-old cooperative is well known in the french west coast for its engagement, its values, its culture and its continious innovation. Scarabée was recently awarded the prize “Sustainable Developement” for “Ille et Vilaine” area.
