Holacracy is a method of decentralized management and organizational governance , in which authority and decision-making are distributed throughout a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested in a management hierarchy.Holacracy has been adopted by for-profit and nonprofit organizations in several countries. Origin The Holacracy system was developed at Ternary Software , an Exton, Pennsylvania company that was noted for experimenting with more democratic  forms of organizational governance. Ternary founder Brian Robertson distilled the company's best practices into an organizational system that became  known as Holacracy in 2007. Robertson later developed the " Holacracy Constitution ", which lays out the core principles and practices of the system.  In June 2015, he released the book Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World, that details and explains his practices. The term holacracy is derived f...