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by goggles99 4554 days ago
What no mention of Valve? from whom they borrowed this concept.
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zhte415 4554 days ago
There 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 Link to HBR PDF: https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?...

I enjoyed the PDF.

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vellum 4553 days ago
Valve 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-organization...
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Luc 4553 days ago
'Maverick', by Ricardo Semler, was written in 1988 and is well known among business types:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0446670553/

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Tohhou 4553 days ago
Valve didn't invent this concept.
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