It's the natural result of all the hippies growing up and finally reaching "management consultant" age over the last 10 years or so. ;) There's always been a h

It's the natural result of all the hippies growing up and finally reaching "management consultant" age over the last 10 years or so. ;) There's always been a handful of smallish companies where everyone is skilled enough and get along well enough to not bother with traditional management. And because everyone is highly skilled and play nicely together, they tend to do very well. And since they do so very well, the obvious difference (lack of standard management roles) is obviously responsible and becomes a topic for fad business books and expensive seminars.