Zappos gets rid of all managers

Re:Zappos gets rid of all managers by goggles99 on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @02:54AM (#7016203)

What no mention of Valve? from whom they borrowed this concept.

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Re:Zappos gets rid of all managers by zhte415 on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @03:37AM (#7016292)

There are quite a few companies that run with an 'unconventional' management structure. A recent link on HN was to a HBR study about Morning Star, a mature company that has run with a 'no managers' strategy for years.

Link to HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6913879 Link to HBR PDF: https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?...

I enjoyed the PDF.

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Re:Zappos gets rid of all managers by vellum on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @04:26AM (#7016392)

Valve is run more like a FOSS project with no official hierarchy. Holocracy is about refactoring the traditional org chart into a more task-based model. Brian Robertson, one of the guys who started the concept, explains the differences here: http://holacracy.org/blog/whats-wrong-with-your-organization...

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Re:Zappos gets rid of all managers by Luc on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @07:24AM (#7016891)

'Maverick', by Ricardo Semler, was written in 1988 and is well known among business types:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0446670553/

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Re:Zappos gets rid of all managers by Tohhou on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @03:55AM (#7016334)

Valve didn't invent this concept.

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