Self-Governing Organisations
Focus on purpose, not position
Self-governing organisations seek to replace the conventional management hierarchy with a tested, customizable self-management practice that increases transparency, accountability and organisational agility. Through a transparent rule-set and a tested meeting process, these practices empower people throughout an organisation to make meaningful decisions and drive change.
We help our clients to build agile organisations with self-managed collaborative teams, with distributed authority that permits each member to be leader in their role.
“We don’t hire smart people to tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”
– Steve Jobs
Why it Matters
Research shows that every time the size of a city doubles, innovation or productivity per resident increases by 15 percent. But when companies get bigger, innovation or productivity per employee generally goes down. Traditional management and governance structures have never been effective at managing knowledge workers. In this highly disruptive age of business, that weakness is no longer sustainable.
Just a few of the symptoms of these outdated models include:
- change resistance
- broken communications
- unclear ownership of decision-making
- overwhelmed staff
- ineffective meetings
- disengaged staff
- rigid and poorly defined roles and accountabilities
- lack of initiative
- politics and influence games
The result of all of these is underperforming organisations that cannot respond to their changing environments.
How we do it
We partner with companies to define aligned objective and key results, and to understand progress toward those objectives using private and public data. This empowers staff to make data-driven decisions in real-time from business insights they trust.
Our key tool for building self-governing organisations is Holacracy. We are the only licensed provider of Holacracy based in Australasia.
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