You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss

Re:You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss by fbrusch on Sunday June 21, 2015 @09:27AM (#9753342)

And since human nature limits the size of group that can work together, the only way I can imagine for larger groups to avoid tree structure would be to have no structure: to have each group actually be independent, and to work together the way components of a market economy do.

That might be worth exploring. I suspect there are already some highly partitionable businesses that lean this way. But I don't know any technology companies that have done it.

Isn't Valve such a company?

http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...

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Re:You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss by mrbgty on Sunday June 21, 2015 @10:05AM (#9753478)

github too

http://www.fastcompany.com/3020181/open-company/inside-githu...

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Re:You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss by swombat on Sunday June 21, 2015 @11:27AM (#9753758)

And Morning Star, Zappos, Stripe, Medium, Semco, W L Gore, Whole Foods, and others... http://danieltenner.com/open-cultures

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Re:You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss by akamaka on Sunday June 21, 2015 @01:10PM (#9754105)

Also, the guy who founded VISA has spent his later years putting forward ideas on how build large organizations that still maintain the anarchic qualities which allow independance from too much central control.

https://books.google.ca/books/about/Birth_of_the_chaordic_ag...

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Re:You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss by fokz on Sunday June 21, 2015 @04:16PM (#9754828)

I also thought of Valve when reading that sentence. Being anarchic is a compelling idea. There are some conditions to be met though. You would need highly autonomous people who have good grab of the big picture to drive the group forward.

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