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His boss trusts him enough to let him take his own decisions, good for him! It's definitely not great advice for every employee, or for every company though...

• nstart 9y ago
  From the perspective of basecamp/37 signals, they've made it a point to do things which most people say "wouldn't work". And they do it and prove that it is possible. A lot of objections one might have to their choices are usually deeply rooted in other organizational dysfunctionalities. Other companies for example may choose to hire weaker employees due to the urgency to get people sooner. Sooner is more important than correct and then you have employees you can't trust to be autonomous. Or you put people in managerial positions whose purpose is to delegate, or approve tasks as part of their monitoring duties. This goes against autonomy entirely. Basecamp for example doesn't have any real managers. While you are right that this won't work for many larger established companies, from the perspective of people starting out (and there are a lot of them), these posts serve a purpose of raising a middle finger to the established norms of running a business. There's a purpose built around tearing down bad decisions that lead to other bad decisions that eventually lead to ineffective teams. And that's the idea behind this post.... Probably :)
• endlessvoid94 9y ago
  It's marketing.