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I'd definitely leave CraigsList off that list, but it seems that once a certain level of market dominance is achieved (through hacker culture, esp. in the case
by noonespecial 16y ago
I'd definitely leave CraigsList off that list, but it seems that once a certain level of market dominance is achieved (through hacker culture, esp. in the case of Intel and eBay) you can switch to almost any old pointy-haired-boss management scheme and still survive. They fossilize and move unstoppably on pure inertia.
Ebay illustrates this perfectly. Nearly everyone who sells on ebay and gets paid through paypal wishes there was a better alternative, but there just isn't.
- wh-uws 16y ago"...you can switch to almost any old pointy-haired-boss management scheme and still survive" That's actually exactly the way its supposed to work in the minds of <for lack of better person to put here> suits Steve Blank has a great articles about this. http://steveblank.com/2009/10/01/durant-versus-sloan-part-1/ http://steveblank.com/2009/10/01/durant-versus-sloan-part-1/
- hga 16y agoRead Cringley's book on Silicon Valley (the one that ends with "and still can't get a date" or the like) for how one individual, a lowly receiving clerk, came very close to killing Intel after it had become very big (maybe Fortune 500 big). "pointy-haired-boss management schemes" have killed many a high tech company and will continue to for the forseablefuture.