Is there an easy way to convert an existing company to Sociocracy?
A. Most companies are already organized in a hierarchal fashion, and getting from there to an initial Sociocratic organization is trivially simple, at least structurally. You simply take the existing hierarchy, the existing organization chart and draw circles around each level. That is, you draw a circle around every manager and those he/she leads. You end up with a series of overlapping circles which is your starting Sociocratic hierarchy. Whether it is the right hierarchy can be determined as the process unfolds. From there you run elections from the bottom up, where the elected individual becomes a member of the next higher circle completing the double link. Now you have a full Sociocratic structure to start from. Alternatively, you start small, with just a subset of the organization or even a single team, and then grow from there. The real conversion challenge lies not in a dramatic change to the fundamental organizational structure but in adding the Sociocratic process, and thats
