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Through cooperation - it's not like you can't work together in a flat organisational structure, or even elect people to deal with higher order concerns for the
by beaconstudios 5y ago
Through cooperation - it's not like you can't work together in a flat organisational structure, or even elect people to deal with higher order concerns for the duration of a project.
- cortesoft 5y agoIf you are electing leaders, it doesn’t sound like a flat structure… you are just changing the selection process, not the ending structure.
- Nevermark 5y agoSo a self-organizing hierarchy? My instinct is that wouldn't scale. Self-organizing gets more complicated, and usually more political, inefficient, and disorganized, the greater the distance self-organization spans. But I don't know any organizations that actually work that way, so have no data.
- mountainriver 5y agoIt does scale very well in open source, the biggest contributors become the leaders, this can be formalized or not
- SkyPuncher 5y agoIMO flat doesn't mean no leaders. It just means few as possible, long-term dedicated leaders. Individual initiatives and projects still have leaders. However, that's leader isn't necessarily a pre-defined role.