{"id":13955,"date":"2014-08-14T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tested-neuron.flywheelsites.com\/?p=13955"},"modified":"2015-02-17T13:23:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T20:23:19","slug":"agile-and-holacracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/agile-and-holacracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Business Methodologies That All Entrepreneurs Should Be Religious About"},"content":{"rendered":"

We live in a time<\/strong> when self-evident, practical truths about life emerge from the mouths of self-proclaimed pundits as genius revelations. They are the kind of truths we know we know already, if we would only pay attention, the kind my friend Cheryl Kiser calls \u201cthe cutting edge of common sense.\u201d But somehow we don\u2019t remember them until we see them on the cover of a business book or magazine, and then we act surprised.<\/p>\n

For example, a friend just raved about the new book The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essentials<\/em>, which explains \u201chow to streamline your life by identifying the essential and eliminating the unnecessary, freeing you from everyday clutter and allowing you to focus on accomplishing the goals that can change your life.\u201dUhm, no s**t.<\/p>\n

Similar examples abound. New research finds that \u201cfood marketing can create a false sense of health<\/a>\u201d or that design should be human-centered. (Design has always been human-centered, but centered only on the humans with the money to commission it.) Perennials on the New York Times\u2019 non-fiction best-seller list include The Power of Habit<\/em> and Susan Cain\u2019s Quiet<\/em>, about how people who don\u2019t yack and socialize all the time are more valuable and productive. Duh.<\/p>\n

Agile and Holacracy are so superior to traditional methodologies, they should be adopted everywhere immediately.<\/i> Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The overabundance of things we need to know (facts and information) obfuscates all the things we need to understand in order to be happy (intuition, wisdom).<\/p>\n

In fairness, we have learned a great deal about how the world works. We no longer fear sailing off the edge of it, we accept the cause and affect relationship between sanitation and health (an unsolved mystery for mankind for thousands of years), and we long ago worked up the courage to prove that the tomato is not poisonous. Big stuff.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the part about our own nature and needs that confuses us.<\/p>\n

Two of the most worthy examples are showing up in both expected and unexpected places of late. Through these related methodologies, we are waking up to a 3.5 billion-year-old phenomenon\u2014life on Earth\u2014and calling it news. The Agile methodology prescribes that we no longer spend years planning and executing complex projects when the speed of change in today\u2019s world means there\u2019s a good chance that what we develop will be obsolete by the time we\u2019re finished. The related methodology, Holacracy<\/a>, tells us that leaving a tiny minority of (mostly white) people in charge of everyone else is not the best way forward. The simple genius in both of these approaches is that they mimic the way nature creates: no five-year plans or bureaucrats\u2014all rapid prototyping, small steps, and fast failure.<\/p>\n

I am simplifying shamelessly here, of course, but it\u2019s my post.<\/p>\n

I mean to say (quickly) that Agile and Holacracy are so superior to our traditional methodologies for running businesses and communities and for creating anything new\u2014and that the rightness of them is so obvious\u2014that they should be adopted everywhere immediately.<\/p>\n

Why would we do anything else? Because nowhere is the avoidance of the unknown and the desire for control more evident than in established American institutions, and nowhere are the forces of money and power put to better use upholding it.<\/p>\n

With all that humankind has learned, we should know better. Xerxes\u2019order to have the sea whipped and branded with hot irons when storms derailed his passage of the Dardanelles in 480 BC seems rightly foolish now. Is it any more foolish than our belief that we can maintain regulated, safe and predictable order over the chaos that is life?<\/p>\n

Agile and Holacracy are the last methodologies we\u2019ll ever need to learn in part because they are finally the right ones\u2014and, in part, because the ones we\u2019ve been using have become lethal.<\/p>\n

Can you say \u201cscrum\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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