Description: After four years, Medium is giving up on Holacracy, the avant-garde management system it used as an alternative to the traditional office hierarchy.

Source: Bloomberg.com

Date: Mar 15, 2016

Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-15/why-is-it-so-hard-to-change-how-we-manage-ourselves

Questions for discussion:

• Describe the Holacracy management approach.
• Why did it fail at Medium?
• How important is the time required to learn a new system to success?
• Do you think Holacracy can become a popular management system?