Zappos had been gradually transitioning to Holacracy, but in early 2015 Hsieh decided to "rip the Band-Aid off" and go from 85% implementation to a full transition.

Zappos, the Amazon-owned online retailer, has been operating as a "Holacracy" since May. It's an alternative management system that was created by a software developer in 2007 and has since been ...

Holacracy: Why Zappos Continues to Disrupt Itself. Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, is a great leader who is unafraid of breaking current models that serve Zappos well in exchange for new models that ...

Holacracy is not coming to a company near you, at least not in its current form. Few have the value set of Zappos and very few have great cultures. It remains to be seen whether it can scale to a ...

Back when Zappos first announced its holacracy initiative, I spoke with Jan Klein, a lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and expert on self-management. Klein was skeptical that Zappos ...

"Holacracy's goal is to merge those three," said Hsieh. "The org chart changes 50 times of day at Zappos." For instance, Zappos has 1,600 employees and 500 circles.

Brian Robertson delivering his holacracy message at a Zappos “All Hands” meeting in Las Vegas in 2014. Here’s how it works, in brief.

Back in the day when managers and "leads" roamed the Zappos.com headquarters, it would have been a mighty feat to allow workers to have dogs at their desks at the online shoe and clothing retailer.

Holacracy at Zappos Zappos was founded in 1999 and is now one of the largest online clothing and shoe stores in the world, with over 50,000 options to choose from.

Holacracy is not coming to a company near you, at least not in its current form. Few have the value set of Zappos and very few have great cultures. It remains to be seen whether it can scale to a ...