Sachit GuptaFounder, CreatorsMBA.com · Founder at CreatorsMBA.com

The BIGGEST Downside of Holacracy! #shorts

22 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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In this short YouTube clip, Sachit Gupta highlights the primary drawback of adopting Holacracy in organizations, especially large ones with established hierarchies. Through a brief dialogue, the speakers discuss how transitioning to a self‑managed, role‑based structure requires a major structural overhaul, can feel like taking on an extra job, and raises questions about timelines and the difficulty of the switch. The conversation underscores that while Holacracy may work for small teams, scaling it to multi‑thousand‑person enterprises poses significant practical challenges.

Especially like if a company is like really big or they, like you said, like they already have their structure and there's work to be done and all, what does that switch or move look like in terms of like timelines and how they do it and how hard it is and all of that?
Because it almost sounds like it's another job, right? It's like you have your job and then you have to do this too.
Yeah, totally.
It is. It's a huge change. And that's the downside, right? This is a big, big change from what we're used to. It's easier to do the smaller, the company is. So if you're a solo entrepreneur and you're about to hire your first person, it's the easiest possible time to adopt this. Right. If you are a, you know, multi-thousand person business, and there are several now that have adopted the Holacracy, it's a really big change. It's hard.