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There are/were six-wheeled cars that got shut out because of market forces unrelated to how well they ran in competition. Google Tyrrell's Formula 1 Six Wheeler

• unabst 9y ago
  Yes, there are always exceptions. The point is, what works works, and if you're forced to make things work, before you know it, you'll find yourself looking awfully similar to those in a similar situation. There is a reason why these business structures are so common. They work.
  • lmm 9y ago
    Is it that they're the only way that works? Or is it that everyone just assumes they're the only way? E.g. Valve took a radically different approach to management and organisational structure and seems to have been very successful.
    • unabst 9y ago
      Of course not... hence the exceptions, and room for innovation, and opportunity for those seeking that innovation. But if you just need something that works, copying a wheel is easier than reinventing one. Better yet, just buy one. Furthermore, understanding the reasons why the most common wheel is what it is will provide invaluable insight into making a better wheel if it comes to that. It will also tell you the market forces or anything else at play. The reasons why anything works will exist and be real, if that thing that works exists and is working already.
    • eropple 9y ago
      Valve is largely paralyzed and if you aren't in the group of cool kids most of that self-actualizing stuff in the HR document/propaganda material doesn't really apply to you. Enough people have left because of it that the bloom is well off the rose.
  • graphememes 9y ago
    This is totally a sales pitch. You can tell because when confronted with an alternative that works and is viable you get the age ol' "Yeah well anything is possible" Of course, what is current was also possible, you're ignoring the fact you're buying into the current dogma and repeating it.
    • unabst 9y ago
      > you're buying into the current dogma and repeating it. Maybe, had I bought something. I did not buy my corporate structure. I built it. It sounds like you're saying all cars have four wheels because everyone is buying into the current dogma and repeating it. I'm saying, if you're building a car from scratch, there is a high likelihood you'll arrive at four wheels. As a matter of engineering, certain structures are common for their physical and functional nature. The more specific the parameters of behavior, the more specific the implementation.
      • graphememes 9y ago
        I'd argue that what you did is even worse of a crime then. You didn't buy into it, you sold it. Still selling it, unwilling to try other things, not very visionary in my opinion. Also, not all cars have four wheels, not all cars are gasoline powered, mechanic evolution is quite infantile whereas static business operations are not. I would argue that also the industrial business ops are still infantile as well. Just more sales.
        • simplify 9y ago
          Even worse of a crime? Could you be more hyperbolic? unabst did try "other things". Did you read the thread?
          • graphememes 9y ago
            Yes, otherwise I wouldn't have responded.