[kragen]

I'm tempted by this vision, though that in itself makes me suspicious that I'm indulging in wishful thinking. Also lutusp wrote a popular article promoting it about 45 years ago, predicting that no companies like today's Microsoft would come to exist.

A thing to point out is that management is itself a skill, and a difficult one, one where some organizations are more institutionally competent than others. It's reasonable to think of large-organization management as the core competency of surviving large organizations. Possibly the hypothetical atomizing force you describe will create an environment where they are poorly adapted for continuing survival.