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Comment by mblevin | Hacker News Reader

The real question for me is: Has Tony Hsieh completely lost his fucking mind, is this the future and we just don't know it yet, or is this all part of some elaborate plan to fire everybody or stage some sort of internal company cleansing?

Seriously - somebody please tell me.

I don't get it.

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It's the natural result of all the hippies growing up and finally reaching "management consultant" age over the last 10 years or so. ;)

There's always been a handful of smallish companies where everyone is skilled enough and get along well enough to not bother with traditional management. And because everyone is highly skilled and play nicely together, they tend to do very well. And since they do so very well, the obvious difference (lack of standard management roles) is obviously responsible and becomes a topic for fad business books and expensive seminars.

so what happens when there is a successful business, often times people running that business think that just because they've had some good ideas and successes, all their ideas must be good and profound :) I don't get it either, but maybe I am wrong

I just love this:

"A new circle called Reinventing Yourself has been created to help guide former managers to new roles that might be a good match for their passions, skills, and experience. Hollie is the lead link of that new circle"

So, Hollie is a manager of managing former managers' efforts to no longer be managers ?

No, not "manager," "lead link." You just don't get it, man. You just do what you're told by the people who are better than you. They're not your managers! They are just 'better' so they deserve to tell you what to do and how to do it.

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