Comment by majormajor
8 years ago
After a while I started thinking "flat org" meant "it takes longer to figure out who makes the decision."
After a while longer, I changed that to "regardless of the org structure, the org chart doesn't fully capture who has influence and who doesn't."
https://www.wired.com/2014/03/tyranny-flatness/
refers to the 1972 essay The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman. http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
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