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Re:How Medium is building a new kind of company with no mana... by notahacker on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @01:46PM (#6168003)
How dramatic are the counterexamples though?

A browse through Morning Star's website reveals job listings for defined roles. They're looking for (i) people with "a strong business background" and "an aspiration for senior leadership" to manage their finances, (ii) people who "likely have a meaningful formal education in related disciplines" to "coordinate", "train" and "identify proper operating procedures", and (iii) "hands on professionals" who need the "ability to read, write, and comprehend instructions" in addition to specific practical skills.

Sure, they might downplay rank and authority, but it doesn't sound like an organization without structure or de facto managerial roles.

Re:How Medium is building a new kind of company with no mana... by dnautics on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @02:43PM (#6168382)
fair point. I think corporations live on a spectrum of authoritarianism, and these are "far out in the distribution" but they aren't perfect, and I don't think in reality a perfectly flat corporation can exist because all employees have a natural range of skillsets. But by "dramatic" I meant dramatic relative to the parent post's claim about organizational size relative to success of the model.