The document discusses growing a company without traditional bosses or top-down management. It argues that most companies are overly managed, which limits employee engagement, productivity, and innovation. As an alternative, it proposes that companies can function like ecosystems or self-organizing machines, with distributed authority, self-management, and holacracy. This allows for purpose and values, information sharing, role design, decision making, and other processes to be determined collaboratively without hierarchical control. Several examples of companies successfully using this approach are provided.
9. Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year
Stats from:
One manager for every 4.7 employees
Limits on the Organization
10. “We want Zappos to function more like a city
and less like a top-down bureaucratic organization.”
-Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos
Limiting Productivity & Innovation
16. Human support
Heiligenfeld FAVI Sounds True
AES ESBZ Buurtzorg
Morning Star BSO/Origin Sun Hydraulics
RHD
Patagonia
Holacracy
Psychiatric
hospitals
Automotive
supplier
RetailElectricity
generation
School Health care
Food processing IT Services Hydraulic valves
Media
Software
18. Purpose & Values
Information Sharing
Strategy & Initiatives
Role Design
Learning & Development
Decision Making
Compensation & Spending
How Does It Work?
19. Purpose & Values
Information Sharing
Strategy & Initiatives
Role Design
Learning & Development
Decision Making
Compensation & Spending
How Does It Work?
20. Purpose & Values
Information Sharing
Strategy & Initiatives
Role Design
Learning & Development
Decision Making
Compensation & Spending
How Does It Work?
21. Purpose & Values
Information Sharing
Strategy & Initiatives
Role Design
Learning & Development
Decision Making
Compensation & Spending
How Does It Work?
22. Purpose & Values
Information Sharing
Strategy & Initiatives
Role Design
Learning & Development
Decision Making
Compensation & Spending
How Does It Work?
23. Purpose & Values
Information Sharing
Strategy & Initiatives
Role Design
Learning & Development
Decision Making
Compensation & Spending
How Does It Work?
24. Purpose & Values
Information Sharing
Strategy & Initiatives
Role Design
Learning & Development
Decision Making
Compensation & Spending
How Does It Work?
25. Purpose & Values
Information Sharing
Strategy & Initiatives
Role Design
Learning & Development
Decision Making
Compensation & Spending
How Does It Work?
26. Purpose & Values
Information Sharing
Strategy & Initiatives
Role Design
Learning & Development
Decision Making
Compensation & Spending
START the SHIFT(s)
28. Make the Shift
Communities
Enlivening Edge
Responsive.org
Reinventing Org Wiki
Many FB groups
ejansen@fitzii.com
blog.fitzii.com
sam@pecolab.com
Percolab.com
TOOLS
Notes de l'éditeur
Peter Diamandis, the creator of the X Prize, said that “The day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea.”
I see this idea moving fast from crazy to breakthrough because there are many successful companies, like Fitzii, that are proving that it works.
It all started when Tony read that when cities increase in size they become more productive by 15%. But as Zappos grew to 1500 employees they were getting less productive. So Tony decided to address the root cause of the productivity issue – and get rid of managers.