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I'd like to see if Valve's model scales to a much larger number of employees.
by nodata 14y ago
I'd like to see if Valve's model scales to a much larger number of employees.
- DougWebb 14y agoIt may not need to; they could take the approach of splitting the company into several smaller companies that are each an ideal size for this management style. I don't recall the name, but there is a manufacturing company (clothing, I think) that does this. Collectively the company has thousands, maybe tens of thousands of employees, but they're organized into independently run shops with around 500 people each.
- carterschonwald 14y agoGore dOes this
- clarnet 14y agoMaking the parallelism of firms as federations (not sure if is a correct assumption), this can surely relate with Proudhon's ideas about federations and confederations: http://www.ditext.com/proudhon/federation/federation.html#7 http://www.ditext.com/proudhon/federation/federation.html#7
- Qworg 14y agoMorningstar Farms does this as well.
- einhverfr 14y agoHow big is much larger? 9k employee businesses exist on this model. The scale issue is NOT number of employees. It is breadth of focus. You could have an operating system company, or an office productivity business, or a video game console company, but it is hard to see people organizing Microsoft in a bossless company without breaking it up first.