[hammerzeit]

100 times this. Eliminating structure just transfers the heavy lifting to informal mechanisms -- i.e. your "culture." No culture is sufficiently well-defined that everybody has a consistent definition of it, meaning you will inevitably have a situation where 2 people are doing directly contradictory things in the name of the company culture. The whole situation at GitHub from a few years ago with a founder's wife running reckless is a perfect example of this.

Ultimately there are probably non-hierarchical models that allow for effective and interesting coordination in certain types of small organizations (viz the Kibbutz), but Holocracy seems like it's replacing Shit Umbrellas with Shit Centrifuges.

[Glench]

Holacracy actually has way more structure than a hierarchy. Just look at the constitution (http://www.holacracy.org/constitution), or read about the rigid way they conduct meetings.

[jacques_chester]

> read about the rigid way they conduct meetings.

It reminds me of common rules of order, except untested by the courts and not covering the many, many permutations of motions that can arise.

I'd just be inclined to use Robert's Rules or a local equivalent. Meeting procedure works very well, when you use it correctly and consistently.