On whether these changes are effective and how the focus on human-centricity works in practice, based on the book "Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them," Anton Martynov, founder of the publishing house "Laboratory," and Bohdan Logvynenko, founder of Ukraїner, participant of Executive MBA-36, discussed. The dialogue was moderated by Olena Zhiltsova, head of EMBA kmbs.

"I would add ideocracy to the comparison of humanocracy and bureaucracy. We are very subject to the ideas that drive the project. We manage to separate from bureaucracy through the division into people and ideas," noted Bohdan Logvynenko. At Ukraїner, they center around the person, but initially, each employee and volunteer shares the project's idea.

At the suggestion of Olena Zhiltsova, the event participants discussed several changes proposed by the book's authors:

creating micro-teams within companies and delegating authority to them;
companies should be open to innovation and use platforms to gain new ideas. According to Anton Martynov, ideas should be generated by specially trained people, but external ideas are important, primarily for marketing. Meanwhile, at Ukraїner, a third of the ideas come from the bottom, and the project is often used as a platform for idea implementation;
employees need to be taught creative thinking and given the right to make mistakes;
the authors insist on collective rather than individual goals. "In sales, there should be a symbiosis of team and personal goals, with a priority on personal. In long-term projects, there are almost no individual things," - Anton Martynov;
often the reason for bureaucracy and stagnation is its CEO, so one possible tool is the ability to re-elect the leader and dismiss the manager through voting;
all data in the company should be transparent, and anyone interested can easily view it.

However, all speakers agreed that we can only partially use the book's advice, considering market realities, and gradually implement more human-centric ideas, overcoming bureaucracy.

Summarizing, Olena Zhiltsova mentioned an interesting fact – it turns out there is an International Bureaucracy Day, celebrated annually on October 1. "I propose to note that now on July 1 we have Humanocracy Day, and with this idea, we move into the next year. And in a year, we can check how much humanocracy has started to work more in Ukraine as a result of this book's publication and our discussions," - and on this optimistic note, she concluded the event.

Humanocracy Day Introduced in Ukraine