I don't understand how such a company could be possible even in theory. Seems like an oxymoron to me. It's company growth that causes it. Once the overhead of

I don't understand how such a company could be possible even in theory. Seems like an oxymoron to me. It's company growth that causes it. Once the overhead of managing the admin side of employees becomes sufficiently large centralisation is a common result. Getting that up and running right is hard - especially since the hard bits are often outside of the skill set of the folk hiring the people to run that new department. Take too long to do get it right and a good company can go bad quite quickly.