I read this article today: "How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management" 1), which seems to be a much bigger study of how managers affect work and performance.

I read this article today: "How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management" 1), which seems to be a much bigger study of how managers affect work and performance. The general conclusion of Google's study is that management matters if it's empowering workers (and not micro managing them). Github is definitely an interesting experiment in a totally flat structure. Google tried a similar flat structure in 2002, but concluded that it did not work that well. Will be interesting to see how it works for Github as they grow even bigger. 1) http://hbr.org/2013/12/how-google-sold-its-engineers-on-management/ar/1 http://hbr.org/2013/12/how-google-sold-its-engineers-on-mana...