This article is not very good. It is riddled with non-sequiturs and irrelevant facts/opinions that doesn't really get into a lot of the subtleties and nuances a

This article is not very good. It is riddled with non-sequiturs and irrelevant facts/opinions that doesn't really get into a lot of the subtleties and nuances around org structures. Flat vs hierarchical structures exist on a continuum where neither end point is ever reached. The success of an organization is not just a matter of the structure but how people act within that structure. Different kinds of organizations need different kinds of managers. Sundar Pichai would be a nobody at Apple, and Tim Cook would be pulling his hair out if he were at Google. It's not that one structure is better than the other. What matters is the people. Flat structures are prone to a lot of problems, but in my experience a lot of the most common issues with 'flat' orgs originate from the fact that the org is not actually flat and people are lying about what roles and responsibilities actually are.