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Graphics engineer. From Sweden, lives in Seattle. Works at Google on VR stuff.

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    1. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 13h13 hours ago

      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

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    2. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 13h13 hours ago

      To grow this team I would just talk to coworkers and convince them to join the new team. It would be an organic process. At each step I would get feedback about the idea. If it's a good idea, people will follow. I would have to be persistent, and good at selling the idea.

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    3. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 13h13 hours ago

      You could say I'm acting as a "Baron". But anybody with the ability to explain the idea and muster the resources can do this. You just do it organically from the bottom-up. It helps to have Sponsor or Baron support, but you don't absolutely require it.

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    4. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 13h13 hours ago

      At a hierarchical firm, as a leaf-node worker or even manager this ability to organically form new teams can be virtually impossible. You would need to engage with the secretive hierarchy and ask for permission and resources, and good luck with that.

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    5. Sebastian Sylvan‏ @ssylvan 13h13 hours ago
      Replying to @richgel999

      I've been at google for a little over a year now (as an IC) and so far I've never been told what to work on. There's an over-arching goal of the team, and obv. have to talk things over w/ coworkers, but we kinda just work it out among ourselves.

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      Sebastian Sylvan‏ @ssylvan 13h13 hours ago
      Replying to @ssylvan @richgel999

      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.

      11:29 PM - 18 Jul 2018
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        2. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 13h13 hours ago
          Replying to @ssylvan

          "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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        3. Sebastian Sylvan‏ @ssylvan 13h13 hours ago
          Replying to @richgel999

          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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        4. Rich Geldreich‏ @richgel999 13h13 hours ago
          Replying to @ssylvan

          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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        1. Bart Wronski‏ @BartWronsk 5h5 hours ago
          Replying to @ssylvan @richgel999

          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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