Holacracy Coach Interview: Jonathan Yankovich "Ask Me Anything", Agile Online Summit 2019
Channel: Modern Productivity
Date: 15/10/2019

This is a remaster of a conversation I had with Tom Henricksen and a few others.  Times and topics follow:

6:40 - Holacracy is particularly useful outside of software development
7:27 - Has Holacracy been used in government? WaTech, Michael D’Angelo’s Circles and Roles in GlassFrog
10:09.- Can it work with a small team only, or does it need a big organization?  Role Fusion, Separation of Role and Soul
12:45 - … The story of how a new circle is born
15:30 - What do you do when everyone is satisfied? The importance of Purpose
18:55 - … How to escape “Agile Theatre”?  Bias for change
21:20 - What other organizations are doing Holacracy?
22:28 - … Holacracy as a Meta-System
24:08 - … Market Based Dynamics at Zappos
26:40 - How do projects get budget in Holacracy?
27:35 - … Shifting from authority in People to authority in Process
29:50 - What were the original influences for Holacracy?
32:50 - … Consensus, Change and Harm (Is it safe enough to try?)
35:24 - … Holacracy in personal relationships
37:40 - Civility, Enlightened Dissent, Safety, Bad feelings aren’t dangerous
41:40 - How does a Holacracy adoption work? DIY vs Coaching, Facilitator as Referee,
43:33 - Tactical Meetings
45:19 - What causes an adoption to fail? Identity, Attitude of Power Holder, Holacracy exposes disfunction
49:55 - Does it always come from management or do individual contributors start it?
53:21 -  Closing Round (A mini retrospective)