None of the recent articles have mentioned it but hollcracy is a American commercialized edit of Sociocracy aka Open Governance (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sociocracy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sociocracy</a>).<p>The seminal text is &quot;We the People&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;aw&#x2F;d&#x2F;0979282705&#x2F;ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1444302659&amp;sr=81&amp;pi=SY200_QL40&amp;keywords=we+the+people+sociocracy&amp;dpPl=1&amp;dpID=51GeMtGtfCL&amp;ref=plSrch" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;gp&#x2F;aw&#x2F;d&#x2F;0979282705&#x2F;ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=...</a>) [no affiliate]<p>The analogy would be how Scrum was created as a commercialized revision of Agile XP.<p>A key tenant is the rights of each circle (team&#x2F;committee) to actively chose how it will make decisions, and it&#x27;s free to use systems such as voting or putting someone &quot;in charge&quot;, but it also has a bunch of innovative decision making approaches that achieve much better buy in and are based on achieving consent as opposed to consensus. It&#x27;s the difference between, 70% of people are on board so we are going ahead regardless of what the rest think. And we&#x27;ll we&#x27;ve heard from everyone and even those that have stated publically to try rest of the group that they have concerns they are no longer blocking &quot;paramount&quot; concerns and we are united in our agreeance to go ahead.