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I can venture a guess. The point of a company is to do things that one person can't do by themselves. If you reject most of the coordinating activities, you've
by dsr_ 7y ago
I can venture a guess.
The point of a company is to do things that one person can't do by themselves. If you reject most of the coordinating activities, you've rejected the company.
(And according to Coase, the other function of a company is to reduce the friction of making deals: if you need to negotiate a contract every time you want to get a programmer to do their job, you decrease the value of the programmer by the cost of the negotiation.)
- tehlike 7y agoWe do need people a few std deviation above the mean productivity. Leaps and breakthroughs happen because of them. So i would assume very strongly company is losing. I can also think managers (if not companies) should work on reducing the need to do more meetings.
- jimmaswell 7y agoMeetings aren't real coordinating activities. They're generally listening to a boss drone on about stuff that could have been said in an email for an hour and people asking pointless questions that mostly only pertain to themselves.