Hi, and Happy New Year, dear reader! Hope you had a wonderful holiday. StrictlyVC’s personal reel featured an outing to “Elf the Musical,” a punishing game of Nerf-N-Strike, and the flu, briefly. It was a terrific break; it’s also really nice to be back. —– Top News in the A.M. The WSJ talks with Mark Zuckerberg and his top […]
Holacracy
Tony Hsieh and Ev Williams Use Holacracy: Should You?
Last week, we learned that Zappos’ management structure is being replaced with a “self-governing” management system called Holacracy that dispenses with job titles and throws an elbow at traditional hierarchies, replacing them with a flatter structure that distributes power more evenly. At first blush, the news could be interpreted as a predictably quirky Zappos maneuver by its employee-friendly CEO, Tony Hsieh. […]