Headquartered on the famed Las Vegas strip, the billion-dollar online shoe company Zappos is gambling that its employees will thrive — without bosses. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh recently decided to nix the ...
Even CEO Tony Hsieh's Inner Circle Can't Describe Zappos' Insanely Complicated Management Philosophy
Zappos' manager-less new organizational structure is so complex that even its biggest proponents seem to disagree about how it actually works. This past January, the Amazon-owned online shoe retailer ...
Every day we are presented with new headlines that touch on the future of work and how things like robots, artificial intelligence and millennials will impact or disrupt industries. In most of these ...
While not entirely new, management by Holacracy was thrown into the spotlight when Zappos adopted this contrarian management philosophy. In case you’re unfamiliar with the term, Holacracy management ...
If you want a preview of what the civilized world might look like in another decade or two, take a look at how work is changing now that Millennials are in the economic driver’s seat. The very idea of ...
Brian Robertson never felt quite at home in a traditional company. As he describes in his book, Holacracy, he felt the bureaucracy, politics and long, painful meetings made getting anything done an ...
I recently spent a month embedded at a consultancy called Undercurrent, watching how they help organizations become more adaptive and responsive. It’s a transformative concept I’ve been thinking about ...
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