In Holacracy, all the actions that need to be taken care of in a company are called Accountabilities.

Roles are then assigned to people who have the skills and resources to fill them.

People can hold multiple Roles, even seemingly unrelated ones.

HR

iOS Development

Tech

e.g.

Office Management

Writing

Roles are flexible. Accountabilities can change...

Lead Programming

Prototyping

Hiring & Firing

… and new Roles can emerge out of shifting Accountabilities.  

Organizing Shifts

Blogging

Copywriting

Bug Testing

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Newsletter

Roles can move between Circles

B2B Networking

Legal Communication

Roles

Customer Support

These Accountabilities are clustered into Roles.

Office IT

  and form Subcircles of their own.