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“Instead of advancing the company using top-down directives from leadership, the company organizes around projects proposed by employees using collaboration software. Employees propose the projects they want to see completed and, if enough coworkers join, they can get started. It sounds crazy, but it’s a growing trend in business. A similar structure was adopted by Zappos earlier this year and has long been in place at Github, Valve, and other companies. Since switching to the holacratic structure, Treehouse co-founder Ryan Carson says he gets less than 20 emails a day and believes worker morale has skyrocketed… You have to have a communication tool… Because you cannot do email. It just won’t work if you try to operate as normal with email.”