In the early 2000’s, Holacracy founder Brian Robertson spent years of trial and error running cultural and organizational experiments in his software company, as he searched for an answer to this elusive question.  What emerged from this series of experiments was a process, or a set of rules, that everyone in the organization - from CEO to janitor - agrees to play by.

This rule set is the Holacracy Constitution, an open-source document that continues to be refined and improved with every iteration, thanks to input from the many organizations practicing Holacracy.

Each Holacracy-powered organization has its own unique set of “Governance records,” which is just a fancy way of saying who is responsible for what.  We created a program called GlassFrog to manage the Governance records so it’s easy to find the information you need when you want to get something done.

Organizations using Holacracy update their Governance records regularly, so that new on-the-ground realities are captured in a place where everyone can find and refer to this information.  The process for how to evolve your company’s structure to keep up with reality is part of Holacracy’s secret sauce, and is captured in, you guessed it, the Constitution.