I hate this article. It's not bad in any factual way, so it's an opinion...but the hero worship is just intense.
That, and it just reminds me of the hustle startups do all the time. "We're rebuilding the internet." Come on...
Regarding the actual management content of the article: it seems too good to be true. From what I can understand of the article's explanation of "link leads" and "evolving roles" - it essentially reduces job description to a generalist, jack of all trades perspective.
That's not realistic. Once you pass that beatific startup culture point, you need structure. Structure isn't a bad thing. It's faulty managers who give it a bad rap, but from a group dynamics and sociological perspective, implementing structure in a company makes sense at scale and for maintaining/improving productivity.
Unfortunately, it's trendy to be anti-all-things-BigCo nowadays. "We need an idea for how to run our company!"..."Well, what's Microsoft doing?...Aha! We'll do NOT-THAT!"...
Personally, if it works it works, but I think I'd hate it, and I'm skeptical.
I don't know. Every action you take "changes the world" even in an incredibly insignificant way. That's a much lower bar than "rebuild the internet". You say that and I'm like "O rly? So does your new internet use IPv6?"
That, and it just reminds me of the hustle startups do all the time. "We're rebuilding the internet." Come on...
Regarding the actual management content of the article: it seems too good to be true. From what I can understand of the article's explanation of "link leads" and "evolving roles" - it essentially reduces job description to a generalist, jack of all trades perspective.
That's not realistic. Once you pass that beatific startup culture point, you need structure. Structure isn't a bad thing. It's faulty managers who give it a bad rap, but from a group dynamics and sociological perspective, implementing structure in a company makes sense at scale and for maintaining/improving productivity.
Unfortunately, it's trendy to be anti-all-things-BigCo nowadays. "We need an idea for how to run our company!"..."Well, what's Microsoft doing?...Aha! We'll do NOT-THAT!"...
Personally, if it works it works, but I think I'd hate it, and I'm skeptical.