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Best way to handle this? Get rid of management. Flat hierarchy. Just to make sure to hire really smart engineers. Code it, test it, ship it. If two forces oppo
by seivan 14y ago
Best way to handle this? Get rid of management. Flat hierarchy. Just to make sure to hire really smart engineers. Code it, test it, ship it.
If two forces opposite each other, put it in a hackathon and gain votes.
- peteretep 14y agoDo you think there might be practical issues that you're not considering, or don't have exposure to, which might explain why such a vanishing percentage of companies work the way you're saying is obvious? Is it because no-one else is smart enough to have thought of this?
- seivan 14y agoThere multiple companies that do flat hierarchies. Most famous one is Valve. You got an interesting project, try convincing others to join you.
- tomjen3 14y agoHoly fuck that is an arrogant comment. Yeah, non-tech companies who produce actual products/services can't really do that, but then they are also not really that relevant since nobody here works for them (outside of IT departments, which could be run as suggested). No the real reason for almost any stupid thing done in corporate environments is politics. Everybody is a peer and results only environments threaten those who have accumulated power under the old system and who couldn't cut in the new system -- which is basically all managers. So of course this only happens when somebody with enough political capital to institute it does so -- typically the owner. Add to that that it is extremely unorthodox and that very few people have previous exposure to systems like that. And you get the few companies that do this, and do well by it.