Certainly there are politics. That's always a problem in any organization. The question is how you manage that and a lot of it has to do with cultivating the

Certainly there are politics. That's always a problem in any organization. The question is how you manage that and a lot of it has to do with cultivating the company in certain directions. The larger issue though I think has to do with goals. It is one thing to be a 9000 employee business making things out of one kind of plastic (WL Gore) without management per se. It would be a very different thing to be a general IT development firm with 200 employees, fingers in 20 different markets and no management. People aren't coming together to do one thing. The field for problems is much increased. The second point I would make is that of support. The goal of a bossless organization is to have an organic organization where employees are well supported. The alternative is to have a command and control organization where employees are well ordered. Employee support is crucial. Not to say there aren't problems. The primary ones that I have seen over and over in looking into this is: 1) How do you know if you need to hire? (We have an answer for this btw) 2) Keeping goals focused and the organization focused on the goals. 3) Ensuring quality and timely communication. The third can be greatly assisted with technology, the other two need to be handled by real leadership. Every organization has politics. The question is how you cultivate good vs bad politics.