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Humans, and their ancestors, have had one-level bosses for hundreds of thousands of years. Humans have had multilevel bosses for at least tens of thousands of
by SeanLuke 6y ago
Humans, and their ancestors, have had one-level bosses for hundreds of thousands of years. Humans have had multilevel bosses for at least tens of thousands of years. In what universe are bosses "unnatural?"
- nprz 6y agoFrom the essay: > A group of 10 people within a large organization is a kind of fake tribe. The number of people you interact with is about right. But something is missing: individual initiative. Tribes of hunter-gatherers have much more freedom. The leaders have a little more power than other members of the tribe, but they don't generally tell them what to do and when the way a boss can.
- rightbyte 6y agoHow does he know how those prehistoric groups worked? The boss report relationship is more child parent like in a hunter gatherer context I guess. Obvously it just all guessing how stone age groups worked, but the biggest difference has to be that there were no formal enforced hierarchies. Maybe there was one elder and a shaman?
- leetcrew 6y agoit seems to make sense. if you're the leader of a ten person group and you push enough of them to their limit, it's not that hard for them to replace you. if you're the leader of a ten person group, but also have the support of a thousand person hierarchy, your followers can't easily get away with replacing you.