tl;dr: It doesn't work. If companies were empires, "get shit done" translates into exploitation colonialism: 1) "Recruit" large amounts of people. 2) Assign

tl;dr: It doesn't work. If companies were empires, "get shit done" translates into exploitation colonialism: 1) "Recruit" large amounts of people. 2) Assign them to bruteforce tasks. Set production quotas. 3) Punish individual agency, self improvement and free thinking. We know now that exploitation colonialism is an inefficient and primitive approach to governance that fails at achieving what it was designed to do: maximize value. Instead, it just maximizes poverty and misery. The empires that used it lost and capitulated to the empires that didn't. And this happened for a reason: it's a greedy heuristic, not a real strategy, it lacks a long-term vision. The poorest countries in the world are governed either in this way or a similar one (extractivism), and are often so weakened by this form of governance that are forced to become vassal states that exist only to be bullied. It doesn't matter if you throw all your entire country's population to "get shit done" (e.g.: agriculture, mining). Maximizing value means you also have to invest in education, infrastructure, science, culture, etc. Instead of telling your employees to work mindlessly towards a goal, tell everyone to believe in themselves, and pursue their ideas if they think they have value. "It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do, we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do" - Steve Jobs