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Re:How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics by specialist on Friday July 01, 2016 @07:47PM (#12020522)
While it can work, "consensus" usually means ad hoc, no accountability, no followthru.

This essay was illuminating:

Tyranny of Structurelessness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessne...

Re:How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics by proksoup on Friday July 01, 2016 @09:09PM (#12020909)
Yes, <3 that.

"Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a structureless group."

The same essay was linked to me a previous time I made a similar public complaint :)

Re:How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics by tedks on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @03:12PM (#12045197)
While I've always thought that essay made good points, it's somewhat dangerous to overinterpret the thoughts of a Stalinist on groups without structure. Her solution is (obviously) to just have hierarchical structure, but this leaves you with the same problems as structureless, there's now just a channel by which people who play the game well can pretend to be accountable. Stalin himself proves that hierarchical groups aren't more accountable, even if they nominally have mechanisms to be so.