I agree that the author’s proposal is too extreme, but some of their advice is good. I think any company wanting to scale to a significant size will need to le

I agree that the author’s proposal is too extreme, but some of their advice is good. I think any company wanting to scale to a significant size will need to learn to implement effective systems rather than rely too heavily on the efforts heroic individuals. However, what the author is proposing is the death of evolution in systems, they seem to think that an optimally efficient and effective system already exists and everyone should just be using it. This is not true because your competitors are probably always looking to change their own systems such that they can out manoeuvre you, unless you respond by adapting your systems, you will likely be out competed. My company’s approach is to progressively systematise everything reasonably possible, but it also has the philosophy that any existing system can be challenged for change or removal. We regularly have retrospectives primarily to try identify how we should change our systems. We never try to change too much at once, but over long periods of time our systems have tended to towards being highly effective. But understanding and identifying highly effective changes (beyond the low hanging fruit) requires exceptional individuals. We will always need heroes prepared to challenge existing thinking in case there is a better way.