Is there some useful function to hierarchy?
Or does it just get in the way?
Aren't flat hierarchies the way to go these days?
Flat Hier...
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Interesting read! Our company is experimenting with flat hierarchy in our engineering team, aka no formal managers, instead we get to elect our top 3 mentors we want for the next few quarters/year. Excited to see how it plays out!
That sounds great!
In regarding on this, I really like how the Google APM program in a episode of Master of Scale is built for speed of execution and reducing hierarchy to get things done.
She helps to create the Associate Product Manager programme for Google.
Take some time to listen to the podcast it's really interesting and awesome on forming tight-knit teams to train anyone and bypass corporate bureaucracy for speeding up execution speed to get things done.