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A Company Without Job Titles Will Still Have Hierarchies

Harvard Business Review

The term “holarchy” made its debut in Ghost in the Machine , a analysis of the human brain and its failings penned by Arthur Koestler in 1967. Think of it as management operating system 3.0. It’s not a new concept. Think: a total entity greater than the sum of its parts. There are reasons to think the experiment might work at Zappos.