Becoming more bureaucratic kills companies. And yet no one who introduces measures that make a company more bureaucratic ever seems to realize they're doing it. All they see is the upside.
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Suppose you’re a successful startup that’s now become a medium-sized company. What can you do to slow the growth of bureaucracy?
Retain the founder CEO. Founders both hate bureaucracy and have the stature to push back against it.
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Good way to stifle bureaucracy but, as the theory goes, the best person to run a large company today is not always the same as when it started. That could outweigh the benefit of lower bureaucracy, no?
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Yes.. but this isn’t mathematics. Where a theorem proven to be true must have zero exceptions. In business, you’re always dealing with caveats and obvious exceptions (like the one you just pointed out). So you’d have to incl. all those caveats or make very general statements
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which non-founder-led companies have been the most successful at avoiding bureaucracy in your eyes?
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And isn’t it also good to keep a lean and mean Start up culture, set up new entities to develop new businesses, even if they might cannabalise the original market of the market company (with something better). Give it enough Startcapital and then the freedom to compete against 1/
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The mothercompany. For example, why does Shell invest in high risk-high return (or billion dollar losses) shale gas, gas & LNG projects, instead of equipping their New Energies department with serious R&D and investment capital and invest in large scale solar & wind, like
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I am a startup founder and I don’t hate bureaucracy. It is a tool, and like any other, it can be useful or misused.
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I’m going to send you a book. Unfortunately, people aren’t honest or smart.
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In my working at/with founder CEO companies Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft I learned to heavily invest into shared infrastructure to enable efficient autonomy, encourage small teams to organically form, and use radical transparency to reduce info dissemination overhead.
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