holacracy

English

Alternative forms

• Holacracy

Etymology

hol- +‎ -cracy

Noun

holacracy (countable and uncountable, plural holacracies)

1. (business, often capitalized) A decentralised system of organizational governance with autonomous and symbiotic teams.
   • 2015 November 19, Steve Rose, “The future is round: why modern architecture turned doughnut-shaped”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Now, [Simon] Denny is scrutinising how similar hacking culture is to “contemporary radical management practices”. Chief among them is “holacracy”, or rather, Holacracy® – a public idea that’s also a privately owned concept, which is about right for this strange new world. For those not up on their radical management slang, Holacracy is a “complete system for self-organisation” that replaces traditional hierarchies with a supposedly more efficient system of autonomous teams of employees called “circles”.