This structure captures the core shift necessary for Holacracy’s distribution of authority—from a hierarchy of people directing people, to a holarchy of organizational functions assigned to roles and circles. And this is a critical difference: a shift not simply in the type of structure, from hierarchy to holarchy, but in what we’re structuring in the first place. Holacracy moves from structuring the people to structuring the organization’s roles and functions. More specifically, instead of structuring a simple power relationship between people—who can give orders to whom—Holacracy structures
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