If I was at a wealthy and powerful self organizing company with all the things I now know, I would have to immediately start a team and grow it then attack some important problem. You can organically do that at a self-organizing firm. You can't just do that at a hierarchical firm
This may not be the case everywhere at google, but it certainly seems possible to have a fairly self-organizing structure within a larger hierarchy.
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"Why self-organizing companies take off - How 2 employees at a Finnish tech firm invented and built a space program": https://nordic.businessinsider.com/why-self-organizing-companies-take-off-how-two-of-our-employees-got-our-firm-to-build-a-satellite--/ … I guess Google is a large enough hierarchical firm that this could happen there.
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I mean it's kind of in-between. At least where I'm at. I can't just go off and work on a space program, so there's *some* hierarchical "mandate" about the general area, but within that it's self-organizing.
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I do believe at a self-organized firm if you made the business case and branded it correctly you could launch your own space program. Seriously.
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I’d say Google is very self organizing for such a huge company. But similar for me. My wife (also works at Google) otoh is given some goals and tasks but then again it’s up to her with whom and how she achieves them. But it certainly also always does involve some politics. :)
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