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Interesting as a strong leadership belief in a good leader. He’s right it’s a sign of dysfunction in a good, centralized hierarchical org. For decentralized networks, basically every result/algorithm I’ve read about tldrs to “communicate more, between more pairs of points”
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Jeff Bezos’s counterintuitive idea: “Communication is a sign of dysfunction.”
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I’ve worked with good/bleeding edge centralized hierarchical orgs and the entire philosophy of good management can be boiled down to “do what Amazon does.” It’s amazing how far ahead they are of state of the art MBA theories of good management, at least at that scale.
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I’ve only recently started working with good *decentralized* orgs (first paid gig was this year) and my prelimary conclusion: flip almost everything you think is correct about centralized hierarchy management by default. And best if you flip the *best* playbook: Amazon’s.
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A good decentralized org would basically be an anti-Amazon in a good way. Flipping *bad* centralized hierarchy models is tempting but dumb. Tempting because most people turn to decentralized network structures out of frustration with bad centralized hierarchies.
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