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Rich Geldreich
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Entrepreneur at http://Binomial.info , Khronos member working on Basis. Ex-Valve/MS,Age1DE,3/Halo Wars/Portal2/DotA2/CS:GO.

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    1. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 3h3 hours ago

      I worked at this one hierarchical software firm. It had a massive, seemingly never ending upwards hierarchy. I could never figure out who managed what, or who was who's manager. The advantage to a self-organizing company is that a lot of this complexity/inefficiency isn't there.

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    2. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 3h3 hours ago

      Everyone had Official Titles. I learned that a "Director" doesn't really direct, which seemed very strange. There were constant and never-ending secret meetings. Secrets were rampant and normal. Much like an intelligence agency.

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    3. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 3h3 hours ago

      When applying for a job at a hierarchical firm, if they really desire you they will hand you some powerful-sounding Official Title. Like "Senior Director of Advanced Mission-Critical Technology". Remember that titles cost a company absolutely nothing.

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    4. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 3h3 hours ago

      At one hierarchical firm I had so many new titles assigned to me as I "Climbed the Ladder" that I had a big cardboard box full of little boxes containing updated Calling Cards. New cards had to be ordered as I received new titles.

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    5. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 3h3 hours ago

      The Peter Principle (people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence") applies strongly at hierarchical firms. Managers can appear like an absolutely crazy concept when viewed through the eyes of a self-organizing firm.

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    6. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 3h3 hours ago

      At one hierarchical firm, I watched as around 10 developers followed around their manager at an event. When their manager said "let's go!", they all followed like a little army following their general. It was totally hilarious: A bunch of full-grown adults following some dude.

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      Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 3h3 hours ago

      As a worker inside one rigid hierarchical firm, the tree of relationships was almost impossible to navigate. I was more or less outside the hierarchy, beneath someone very high. But I wasn't part of the manager club. It was a very opaque structure, super resistant to outsiders.

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        2. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 3h3 hours ago

          One large hierarchical firm scales up by taking a pre-designed Company Office Template and just stamping it out all over the world. New offices can form up around existing small teams that are acquired.

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        3. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 3h3 hours ago

          The satellite offices at these companies can have very different cultures. One office I nicknamed "The Pirate Ship". The workers hated their managers here, and were threatening to walk at any moment. They were particularly mad about the lack of office space.

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        4. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 3h3 hours ago

          I treated one rigid hierarchical firm like I was at a self-organizing company. I just optimized to Get Something Done. It was hilarious, as I broke every rule in the book to get this one important thing accomplished. I was near the "top" outside the manager hierarchy so it worked

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        5. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 3h3 hours ago

          But I did piss off a bunch of people because I didn't follow the Rigid Hierarchical Company Protocol. Only the CEO was allowed to do those things. Amazingly, at a self-organized company you have many of the powers of a CEO.

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        6. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 2h2 hours ago

          At huge hierarchical firms execs and high-level managers are basically like Corporate Gods. They have Official Powers. Leaf-node workers are beneath them. They can talk differently and strangely, and only associate with other Corporate Gods. They are a different breed of worker.

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        7. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 2h2 hours ago

          When I was younger at one ~100 person hierarchical company I was a leaf-node worker. One day my manager said "Keep quiet and let's go to an offsite. Tell no one else." I was utterly amazed as this meeting was unlike any other I had seen. Managers were yelling at each other.

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        8. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 2h2 hours ago

          And so I learned, the manager hierarchy behaves differently when only among themselves. They treat the leafy workers differently, and there are tons of official secrets. It's a very secretive, elite club.

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        9. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 2h2 hours ago

          The managers at large hierarchical firms and execs have lots of secret offsites. The managers get special offsite Manager Training as well. Whenever you interact with these people, how they treat you will depend on whether you're in the Club or not.

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