[bostonsre]

It sounds reasonable, but I think a key requirement of operating like this would be to have solid leaders that will guide the organization in the correct way.

This is similar to the best blog post I've ever read on organizations by coda hale [1]. His perspective of viewing an organization like a distributed computing system is enlightening and highly pragmatic.

Scaling organizations is hard. To scale well, you need to avoid contention on shared resources and continually work on force multiplier type projects.

[1] https://codahale.com/work-is-work/

[jadeforrest]

Thank you so much for introducing me to that article. It's fantastic! I've made this comparison forever, and used a lot of the same arguments -- I wish I had written this!

[spdionis]

Quite cool to see my conclusions on viewing organizations as distributed systems echoed by other people, and, in particular, explained in such beautiful form.

Definitely recommend reading parent's quoted article.