Great article. Anyone who has worked for a large, established corporation knows from personal experience that internally they are a lot like the Soviet Union, with a hierarchical structure of bureaucrats and their apparatchiks making decisions for everyone at the company.
Despite having grown to around 400 employees, Valve is evidently not like that. The author, Yanis Varoufakis, makes a compelling case that future companies may look more like it than like the traditional hierarchical corporations of today.
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PS. As someone who regularly reads the author's economics blog at http://yanisvaroufakis.eu, finding him on Valve's corporate blog was the source of quite a bit of cognitive dissonance for me. ("What the...? Why is Varoufakis showing up on Valve's corporate blog?" was my immediate thought.) I had to do multiple double-takes before it dawned on me that, yes, he somehow works at Valve!
Despite having grown to around 400 employees, Valve is evidently not like that. The author, Yanis Varoufakis, makes a compelling case that future companies may look more like it than like the traditional hierarchical corporations of today.
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PS. As someone who regularly reads the author's economics blog at http://yanisvaroufakis.eu, finding him on Valve's corporate blog was the source of quite a bit of cognitive dissonance for me. ("What the...? Why is Varoufakis showing up on Valve's corporate blog?" was my immediate thought.) I had to do multiple double-takes before it dawned on me that, yes, he somehow works at Valve!