> To get their severance, employees had to be in good standing with the company. They were also asked to indicate by email that they had read the management book "Reinventing Organizations" and disagreed with its manager-free vision or else state that they were not reading it.
Crazy.
I wonder how many more employees would have left if Zappos was based in a region where workers have greater mobility.
I can't wait to read that book.
Be careful what you wish for. A company without management is like a boat without a captain. You might appear to be fine for some time, but eventually you'll be hopelessly adrift at sea.
They shouldn't hate the players, but the game.
A company without management may drift around aimlessly in Brownian motion, but at least it does not order "ahead flank" onto the rocks.
There once was a manager,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
And when she was good,
She was very, very good,
But when she was bad, there were layoffs.If everyone doesn't work together, with a hard time constraint, to achieve the shared vision they believe in it seems really hard to do amazing things at any sort of market dominating speed.
I accept those bets happily.