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The Zappos Holacracy Experiment

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The Challenges of Allocracy at Zappos

Zappos is the first major company to experiment with an allocracy. CEO John MacIntosh says more companies will try it over the next 10 or 20 years. The challenge, he says, is figuring out what's the return on investment in being adaptable. "There's actually probably more structure in a whole of a credit company than there is in traditional companies"

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