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And just to defend top-down orgs a bit, the corollary is that because different teams might make different decisions, flat/bottom-up organizations tend to be le
by Galxeagle 5y ago
And just to defend top-down orgs a bit, the corollary is that because different teams might make different decisions, flat/bottom-up organizations tend to be less standardized - more flexible at the cost of some chaos. A tendency for launching and killing products in quick succession is one possible implication. For Valve launching different games that works, at Google launching/killing chat apps is starting to hurt their reputation.
An ideal company is a mix of both, but which policies are ‘imposed from above’ and which are allowed to ‘boil up from the bottom’ is usually an endless source of discussion - I wonder which way Intel is going
- ethbr0 5y ago> An ideal company is a mix of both The best company I've ever worked at (retail, surprisingly) squared the circle thusly: Strategy (i.e. goals, culture, priorities) flowed top-down. And the company spent serious time doing it pervasively and well. Solutions (i.e. implementations, features, products) flowed bottom-up. Part of their corporate culture was that a manager above team level should never suggest how to do something. You could bounce ideas off them, but they were pretty serious about it being the person doing the implementation work's decision.
- ketzo 5y agoWow, that seems like a really strong set of guiding principles. I like that a lot.