In today’s episode, co-host David Bilbrey continues his exploration of business and permaculture as he sits down to hear from Mark Simpson about how Mark applied the ideas of Holacracy and Self Management to a hierarchical business. This resulted in a flattening of that vertical organization into a vastly more horizontal one that creates empowerment and opportunity for employees to influence their work and direction.
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Mark doesn’t have a website, but if you’d like to get in touch with him, send me an email and I can connect you.
If you’d like to find out more about Holacracy and Self-Management, I’ve included a number of resources in the show notes to explore this further.
Listening to this conversation, because of the political theory I’ve been steeped in over the years, Holacracy reminds me of the work of communalists and mutualists and people like Murray Bookchin to flatten hierarchies and create collaborative environments to create change. That we can come together around a problem or idea and create a dynamic structure with guiding rules and principles that get us from an idea to a goal. But, that’s just my initial read on this. Have you worked with holacracy or self-management in your business or personal practices? Do you have some specific resources that you would recommend? Let me know.
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RESOURCES
Holacracy
Holacracy: A Radical New Approach to Management (TEDx Talk)
Brave New Work
Reinventing Organizations
Crowdocracy (The Evolution of Democracy)
Article: What is the Integral Approach?
Book: The Integral Vision by Ken Wilbur (Goodreads)
Book: Gettings Things Done by David Allen (Goodreads)
Book: The Next Revolution by Murray Bookchin (Goodreads)