We want to be totally honest with you. Learning Holacracy takes time.

Most of us have a lifetime of practice in navigating traditional  management hierarchies, and we’ll need to unlearn these habits in order to learn new ones.  Ask anyone who has ever tried to learn a new golf swing or improve their diet; changing habits doesn’t happen overnight.

David Allen, author of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity and experienced Holacracy practitioner, says that Holacracy is a five-year journey. He doesn’t mean it takes five years to learn Holacracy well enough to use it.  With support, most organizations can do that in a matter of months.  What he means is, it can take as long as five years to become a top-of-the-line, high-functioning practitioner. (Read more about the David Allen Co.’s journey into Holacracy here.)

The more experience your organization accumulates practicing Holacracy, the faster and easier using it will be.  Ultimately, you’ll find that Holacracy will become as mundane and invisible as your computer’s operating system, except in those moments when you step back and notice how much easier something is than it used to be back when you were running on an old system.