The Integral Center, LLC Give Up Control

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Christopher Kindig
  • April 15, 2013
  • Economics & Law

“In a legally binding move, founders of The Integral Center, LLC have voluntarily relinquished their rights to control their company as owners. Instead they have ceded authority to a purpose-centered governance process called Holacracy, a model that distributes authority across the organization and gives primary power to the organization itself.”

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http://integralcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/IC-Holacracy-Legal-Ratification.pdf

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