December 07, 2020, 10:18 AM
radiomanAn interesting life death of Zappos founder
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In 2013, Zappos began experimenting with a management philosophy called Holacracy, in which titles and bosses are eliminated.
I wonder how that would work.... with nobody really in charge, it seems like things would fall apart, but maybe not....
December 07, 2020, 10:50 AM
Jeff YarchinVery sad. Too long to copy/paste
https://www.forbes.com/sites/a...ary/?sh=677a20064f22December 07, 2020, 11:02 AM
corsairquote:
Originally posted by radioman:
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In 2013, Zappos began experimenting with a management philosophy called Holacracy, in which titles and bosses are eliminated.
I wonder how that would work.... with nobody really in charge, it seems like things would fall apart, but maybe not....
The unstructured framework largely works in a office/corporate environment, so long as everyone knows their responsibilities. Most everybody had a mentor that they worked with, which is something I think is lacking outside of certain professional fields. If your work was suffering, you were more into the party environment and not doing the work, you got a few speaking sessions and ultimately shown the door.
As a sales rep who sold to Zappos, from my perspective, they were fantastic to deal with, they were a pleasurable account to manage. There was no confusion or, issues as to who is who, and if I needed to elevate an issue or, get some answers, speak to a company officer, wasn't an issue.
December 07, 2020, 11:46 AM
Sig209have read a couple longer articles on this the last couple days including the Forbes one above
basically he went nuts (he was already a 'weird' guy to start with apparently)
chalk him up as another Covid mental health casualty i guess
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