These Shoes Were Made For Walking

3guyswalkYou may remember this post from July, Bureaucracy, Autocracy, Holacracy?  Online shoe retailer Zappos was ditching a traditional business plan for the more free-form governance known as holacracy.  In theory, the plan offered each employee an equal say in various parts of the business.  Flash forward to January 2016 where employees have left the company in droves due to this new found “freedom.” The Zappos Exodus Continues After a Radical Management Experiment.

Bureaucracy, Autocracy, Holacracy?

Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 6.20.28 PMHolacracy is a new business model that strives to offer every employee a voice.  But can a large business function in this way?  Is the transition to such a new and different model too much for workers to handle?  Could it be that even as independent adults we still desire to have a boss?
 At Zappos, Pushing Shoes and a Vision