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Self-organised businesses : With great power comes great responsibility
The good and the work-in-progress
It’s been a year, almost to the dot, that I’ve joined a self-organised business where there are no bosses or managers.
It’s been an eye-opening, sometimes frustrating, but also incredibly gratifying experience so far.
The company implemented holacracy 2 years ago, right in the middle of the pandemic.
What I’ve been impressed by :
- The meetings are the most efficient I’ve seen in 12+ years of corporate life. Short, quick, to the point, efficient. You can be in an out of a meeting within an hour having run through dozens of most times unrelated pain points.
- We get to define our own roles & responsibilities, giving us a degree of freedom which allows us to play to our strengths.
- We’re not pigeonholed into our core professions : e.g. : a web developer who’s good at communications can take on tasks relating to comms. So this actually allows for humans to flourish and to take on responsibilities they wouldn’t have had access to in a traditional company. Those additional roles can be taken on for a defined period of time too, so you’re not stuck with them if you decide you want to move on.
