Most observers who have written about holacracy and other types of self-managed organizations take an extreme position, either celebrating these “bossless,” “flat” environments for fostering flexibility and engagement or denouncing them as naive social experiments that ignore how things really get done. To gain a more accurate, balanced perspective, it is important to look beyond the buzzwords and examine why the forms have evolved and how they operate, both in the trenches and at the level of enterprise strategy and policy. That’s what’s done by the contributors of this brilliant article.
https://hbr.org/2016/07/beyond-the-holacracy-hype
