Zappos, the Amazon-owned online retailer, has been operating as a "Holacracy" since May. It's an alternative management system that was created by a software developer in 2007 and has since been ...

Never one to take the cautious way to anything, Zappos co-founder Tony Hsieh is playing 52 Pickup with his corporate organizational structure. Company "management" (the term doesn't exactly apply ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tony Hsieh, CEO at Zappos, said the company could ultimately open up its dynamic org chart to the public so business schools and external communities can offer suggestions and help it iterate. Hsieh ...

Once again, holacracy is making headlines both for how radical the flat management philosophy seems and how difficult it is to adopt. Look no further than the latest batch of stories about the ...

FRED MOSSLER, NON-TITLED ZAPPOS EXECUTIVE: As I noodle on the press coverage, what no one has mentioned, is if any company were bold enough to offer their entire employee base a severance the likes of ...

How's Holacracy working? It's a mixed bag, but progress is inching along, according to the article. Tony Hsieh, 41, who founded Zappos 16 years ago and insisted that the company try Holacracy, ...

Zappos, the online clothing retailer and Amazon subsidiary, has spent the past year and a half conducting a peculiar experiment. It’s called holacracy, and it’s the somewhat radical notion that the ...

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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 ...