How Medium Is Building a New Kind of Company with No Managers
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Re: How Medium Is Building a New Kind of Company with No Managers
#2I tend to think of this approach as "a company that hasn't had a big HR incident yet".
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#3I don't quite buy it. I'll guarantee that there are figures who call the shots in the company, whether they are called "managers" or not.
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#4The key takeaway from the article is that Medium is still under 50 people. At that size, any sort of hokum management style will probably work.
Call me when you hit 200+.
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#5I tend to think of this approach as "a company that hasn't had a big HR incident yet".
One lawsuit from an sexual harassment will end this free for all.
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#6I tend to think of this approach as "a company that hasn't had a big HR incident yet".
I think you nailed it.
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#7Several comments on the thread seem to not have read the article. Specifically: while they do not have "traditional people managers", they have people they call "Lead Links" and "Domain Leads" who take on management roles.
It seems many are reading the title of the article and imagining a utopian experiment in total anarchy.
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#8> He started spending one-on-one meetings talking to his reports about their lives, instead of their tasks, and productivity shot through the roof
Google famously published a study that said essentially the best managers were the ones who took active interest in their peoples lives.
For me, unless they are behavior/performance related, my 1:1's are always "their" time. Time for the employee to talk about whatever. That said, most of them feel like talking about work.
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#9The key takeaway from the article is that Medium is still under 50 people. At that size, any sort of hokum management style will probably work. Call me when you hit 200+.
Gabe Newell is on line 3.
Valve is famous for their flat organizational structure. At nearly 200 people and multi-billions in revenue, it can work.
Ofc Valve does a lot more than a simple blog site.
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#10What I want to know is how do they make the difficult decisions.
When does someone get fired?
If there are not enough resources in the pot, then who gets to expand?