Justin Fox, Columnist

Running a Company Without Bosses

Bosses might disappear, but not structure.

June 24, 2015 at 7:31 PM UTC

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

Can this guy let go a little bit?
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You may have heard about online shoe retailer Zappos’ experiment with the non-hierarchical management approach Holacracy. It hasn't been without hiccups, as Rachel Emma Silverman reported in the Wall Street Journal in May:

Holacracy is the brainchild of former software entrepreneur Brian Robertson, who is now “Constitution Steward,” “Holacracy Spokesperson,” “People & Partnership Lead Link,” “Compensation Architect” and about 20 other things at HolacracyOne, the consulting firm he co-founded to spread the word.