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Most people think organizations grow in response to customer demands but I think a bigger factor is that people love having others work for them and an organization will expand to fit as many people as possible until the business model reaches a stable low level of growth.
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As we move from a world where work involved real coordination to work being software algorithm stewardship it will be interesting to see if these super firms start creating more bullshit jobs or they start paying users (like YouTube) and including them in the umbrella of people
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In large industrial orgs many could only grow past a certain point by moving into different industries (conglomerates) versus becoming more efficient. Now the connection between employees and scale are less constraining but people still love having tons of reports.
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My model of work is that for most people outside the highly ambitious we see it as a way to pay for our preferred lifestyle and full time containers are the most popular. Industrial scale and jobs were synced for a while so our beliefs of hard work = virtue were generally helpful
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Now we have an increasing number of jobs where you’re not directly working on anything or you’re in the world of abstract information. I expect to see a massive shift in the stories we tell about how and why we work.
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And as software enables more people to be essentially solo businesses you might see stories emerge that explain why it’s better to work for someone else. “I’m part of bigcorp guild A and it’s worth it because…”
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