- traditional companies are dinosaurs waiting for the meteor
- bloated, slow, doomed
- built on a lie: that handful of suits in boardroom know better than collective intelligence of entire workforce
- newsflash: they donât
- unlike traditional voting systems that also fail at scale
- even liquid democracy concepts struggle when forced through corporate hierarchies
- itâs the future of work
- your typical company is pyramid of incompetence
- decisions trickle down from top, slow as molasses and twice as useless
- by time choice is made, marketâs moved on
- opportunityâs gone
- some startupâs eating your lunch
- donât scale bureaucracy - scale autonomy
- requires system thinking - understanding how parts interact, not just optimizing individual components
- take ants: millions of individuals, no boss, no org chart
- yet they build complex colonies, find optimal food sources, wage wars with military precision
- how? simple rules, local interactions, emergent behavior
in nature:
individual + simple rules = collective genius
in corporations:
individual + policy handbook = soul-crushing mediocrity
- this isnât theory - itâs already happening
- chinese appliance giant blew up traditional structure
- now itâs 4,000 micro-enterprises
- internal market, real p&ls, sink or swim
- result? crushing it while competitors play catch-up
- dutch healthcare provider ditched managers entirely
- nurses self-organize in small teams
- make own decisions, schedule own work
- result? better care, happier employees, lower costs
- unlike traditional structures, they have forkability built in
- teams can split and reorganize as needed
- itâs to enable
- nature doesnât need managers
- neither do you