Acknowledgement - Acknowledgement.0101.14.pdf. Sense-making for the connected workplace. Social Learning in Business. Social learning is how work gets done in the network era.
But what does that really mean? Our dominant frameworks for structuring work are currently hierarchical structures, like corporations and bureaucracies. But these structures are failing us, as the world gets so networked that traditional command & control structures cannot deal with the rapid change and increasing complexity. As Umair Haque asked last year, “Name a “working” institution. SoCoMo- 21st C Networks. Social learning for work. Network era workplace. Coherent communities. Holacracy: The Hot Management Trend for 2014? If all goes well, by the end of this year Tony Hsieh won't be the CEO of Zappos.
In fact, he won't be anything there, just another employee without a title. It may sound like any other CEO's worst nightmare, but for Hsieh and Zappos, it's a bold new experiment in management. The Amazon unit will become the largest company yet to embrace a holacracy. Invented in the early 2000s by entrepreneur Brian Robertson, holacracy is a management structure based on the tasks a company needs to accomplish, rather than a standard reporting structure.