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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. Not exactly fertile ground for collaboration and innovation. 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.