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From the documentary I've watched, Theranos was a very dictatorial organization that had strictly enforced knowledge silos and spied on its employees. Their fra
by codeflo 3y ago
From the documentary I've watched, Theranos was a very dictatorial organization that had strictly enforced knowledge silos and spied on its employees. Their fraud wouldn't have been possible otherwise, but the article's "expert" claims the opposite. Also, quoting what Elizabeth Holmes said as evidence for anything is really beyond stupid at this point, yet it's exactly the logic of the article.
- blululu 3y agoThe article feels like it was written on a tight deadline by sleep deprived journalist trying to get something out. Theranos is a case of a place that calls itself flat when it really isn't. If anything the moral issue presented here is more significant in hierarchies than in flat structures. In a hierarchical structure a few bad actors can do a lot without anyone even knowing about it. For this reason, more explicit hierarchies typically have a series of checks to try to curtail this issue. The lack of these checks at Theranos is less about being flat and more about the fact that it was a heirarchical org that refused to act accordingly.
- phpisthebest 3y ago>>journalist Does the traditional media even employ journalist's anymore? Seems to be most organization are very lacking in journalistic standards
- tbrownaw 3y agoI think the claim is that the flatness enabled the dictatorialness. Or at least made it easier.
- codeflo 3y agoI get that, but that's just stupid given how the story actually played out. When people talk about flat organizations and mean it, they also mean transparent, cross-functional teams that understand the full context. If that had been allowed at Theranos, every employee would have puzzled together the fraudulent behavior in 5 minutes. Someone would have leaked it years earlier.