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Central planning doesn't work well, but market principles do. So if enough employees go and form a team to do something, a smart self-organized company will watch the team grow organically and see what happens.
The corporate arm and its resources are there to help this process occur organically. If they interfere and snuff-out organic teams they are going against the principles of self-organization. "Overwatch" team feedback is fine, but remember the system is delicate and fragile.
Mass purges happen regularly. Why? What if there was no bonus incentive system? What is the cause behind all this madness?
The firm has such easy access to new hires that it’s easy to fill the hiring funnel. Hundreds of candidates show up at conferences to apply. So employees are viewed as expendable as the firm “searches” for desirable self-organized workers.
I do believe that sometimes the corporate arm can overreact to minor issues and then purges erupt. The corporate arm can underestimate how much damage this does.
In a growth period workers are expendable and purges occur as the firm grows. During periods of stability I suspect purges occur less often.
I don’t believe bonuses cause purges, but they do massively distort the organization in other ways.
So growing self-organized companies with easy access to new hires can be unstable places. The firm is looking for the right people and employment is more like an extended interview.
Another explanation is that corporate arm workers can become power mad and just fire people they dislike. (After all, they are instantly replaceable.)
But this alternative “power mad” explanation doesn’t make a lot of sense. It’s dumb. Why would you make your super valuable tech workers nervous unproductive wrecks?
Sorry to interject. The "if we change it might break" mentality works if you're shipping... But 5 years and 100s of millions later for wages at least with nothing to show? Break away?
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