the most famous example I know of is Zappos, though there seems to have been a focused negative messaging campaign against their holocracy
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this is one of the more balanced articles I was able to find on Zapposhttps://hbr.org/ideacast/2016/07/the-zappos-holacracy-experiment …
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Valve software is another example of a company famous for unusually flat, non-hierarchical structure
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Replying to @danlistensto @fortelabs
Yeah, Holacracy isn't really flat and non-hierarchical is the thing. That's what pluralists want and the idea is popular so it gets press.
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Replying to @VincentHorn @fortelabs
I think the misconception is that holacracy is uniformly flat, which it is not necessarily. It's more about decentralization than flatness.
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Decentralizing is one way to move toward a distributed system. Centralizing can also be a way to move toward a distributed system.
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Replying to @VincentHorn @fortelabs
it can be but that requires a very optimistic view of how a central distribution authority will behave
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I've struggled to create small systems that keep these things in check, and have err'd to both sides, and seen how they actually fail.
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Replying to @VincentHorn @fortelabs
I'd be really interested to read your thoughts on that (failure modes) at length
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my intuition is that centralized systems deal with coordination scaling problems but fail at fairness/liveness and autonomy of subsystems
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and that decentralized systems deal with fairness and autonomy well but choke on their poorly scaling coordination costs
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Replying to @danlistensto @fortelabs
Sounds generally right on to me. :)
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