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My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating from college, and after kicking ass for a year or so she was offered a promotion to management, which she accepted with relish. Molly was smart, driven, and fiercely ambitious, so she swiftly clambered up the ranks…
Example organization structures.
Suitable for research-article assignment
Why some people dominate speaking time in groups.
Group dynamics.
A governance toolkit for great communities
Isn’t it weird that the radically democratic miracle of open-source collaboration is so full of monarchical dictatorships?
Building and maintaining healthy teams is real work that takes time and effort–especially if you’re trying to organize people to get something done. Doing that work within a flat or “leaderle…
Structure is part of the reason.
Published in Ms. magazine, "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" observes that organizations built to avoid hierarchy develop leaders with pernicious power.
People cannot be equal participants in environments where they are subject to wildly unequal risk. People cannot be equal participants in environments where they are unequally threatened.