How Did You Get Rid of Leadership?

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Hilocrasy is an abdication of leadership, and that doesn't work very well for any of us. It's 100% reaction to atrocious leadership in most cases. O a say, katy, this was probably the most eloquent rebuttl, any one could have given on hilocracy. This has to be written out, share with the world. You then found yourself having to transition away from it. Some of your best people sounded like they left. How did you go about this? I know you ed of going through quite a bit of growth afterwards. What allowed you to rebuild the engineering org into a hih performing one? Yes, well, it

Katie Wilde, the VP of Engineering at Ambassador Labs, joins us to spill the tea on Holacracy and decentralized management systems. Find out why these organizational structures don’t work for companies building software and how they can drive your best people away.

Katie also shared how her previous company, Buffer, transitioned from a Holacracy into a strong engineering leadership culture, through goal-oriented 1:1s, effective feedback, and creating a strong sense of responsibility among its leaders.

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