Grzegorz Klimarczyk · published in Polish
The Bossless Company
How a business experiment in self-management grew into a model generating over PLN 20 million in revenue a year.
- Author
- Grzegorz Klimarczyk
- Format
- Print · MT Biznes · Polish
2×
company revenue and net profit
+50%
larger base of recurring clients
~70%
rise in the team’s average pay
A record of real change
Grzegorz Klimarczyk documents the evolution of OpenNexus: from centralised control that becomes a bottleneck for growth to an autonomous structure. These are the experiences of a particular company, including its successes and difficulties.
The architecture behind the results
Self-organisation in practice
Teams make decisions within the boundaries set by the company strategy: freedom within defined limits.
Self-management through roles
Accountability and decisions are distributed across specific roles rather than traditional job titles.
Culture and results
The journey from control to trust connects organisational culture with everyday decisions and business performance.
What will you take away?
- How to stop being the bottleneck in decision-making.
- How to build a team that takes responsibility.
- How to scale a company without increasing headcount.
- How to use AI and automation in practice.
- How to bring order to the business.
Opinie
What the experts say
Endorsements translated from the Polish original.
For me, “The Bossless Company” is the best book on teal organisations I have read since Frederic Laloux’s “Reinventing Organizations”.
Prof. Andrzej BlikleAuthor of “Doktryna jakości” (The Doctrine of Quality) The author’s openness and candour deserve recognition, including on financial matters such as building the pay system.
Prof. Magdalena WyrwickaFaculty of Engineering Management, Poznan University of Technology I am hugely impressed — this will be genuinely important reading for any company that wants to move towards self-management. If Frederic Laloux’s book is the romantic take on teal that starts it all, this one is an absolute must-read.
Piotr JabłonowskiCEO and Co-founder of Octolize
Architect of the transformation
Grzegorz Klimarczyk
Co-founder of OpenNexus, a practitioner of self-management and organisational change. He has travelled from being a controlling manager to a leader building autonomous teams.
His company of just under 40 people, run by the team using the model they developed together, reached over PLN 20 million in revenue and PLN 6 million in net profit in 2025. He is drawing on this experience in his doctoral research.
See also “Dasizm” (Polish) (opens in a new tab).
Help us understand self-management
Take part in the research on self-management in Polish companies. The questionnaire is available in Polish only.
Research findings
An aggregated, anonymised summary will compare readiness for self-management across industries and generations.
Live Q&A
The source project provides for a session in which the author discusses the research findings and implementation questions.