No Management?
What if you had no management? Just owners and employees. That’s what Jason Fried is trying at 37 Signals with some success. This is also consistent with Reed Hastings' Netflix Culture of Freedom & Responsibility. One thing I really like about Jason’s approach is to rotate team leaders weekly so it eliminates the “toxic labor-versus-management dynamic.” I don’t buy into everything he recommends, but if you are willing to really systematically hire only superstars and then have systems in place to fully engage and train them, this “no manager/rotating team lead” concept is worth a 90-day pilot in many organizations.
