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What no mention of Valve? from whom they borrowed this concept.
by goggles99 13y ago
What no mention of Valve? from whom they borrowed this concept.
- zhte415 13y agoThere are quite a few companies that run with an 'unconventional' management structure. A recent link on HN was to a HBR study about Morning Star, a mature company that has run with a 'no managers' strategy for years. Link to HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6913879 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6913879 Link to HBR PDF: https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=573&i=15715&cs=7c855bfce2fd1c3860846954978b1181 https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?... I enjoyed the PDF.
- Tohhou 13y agoValve didn't invent this concept.
- vellum 13y agoValve is run more like a FOSS project with no official hierarchy. Holocracy is about refactoring the traditional org chart into a more task-based model. Brian Robertson, one of the guys who started the concept, explains the differences here: http://holacracy.org/blog/whats-wrong-with-your-organizational-structure http://holacracy.org/blog/whats-wrong-with-your-organization...
- Luc 13y ago'Maverick', by Ricardo Semler, was written in 1988 and is well known among business types: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0446670553/ http://www.amazon.com/dp/0446670553/