So, of tangetial relevance, but something I’ve been thinking about recently is… well the governance structure of a small company (dictatorship of one person over 3-8 people, who all have the option to leave), vs the same company several years/scale increases later. (A company of millions of people which effectively acts as a large piece of infrastructure in the country it lives in, yet is still goverened by private interests)
It kind of feels like different governance structures are warrented… and should be legally mandated. Like… I want small start ups to do what they want. I want Amazon to slow morph into a democratically run piece of infrastructure, as opposed to a monopoly, as it gets bigger. I want medium sized companies to have a sort of semi-democracy, where the CEO/board steer the ship, but the staff are INVOLVED in the decision making.
How do we do this? Can a company set itself up with a governance structure which is explicitly designed to change with scale. Should the government say “You have more than a million staff. You are actually a government department now”? Or, like… maybe we don’t trust governments? (I do, but I live in a country with high trust, not everyone has that, so whatever).
So, of tangetial relevance, but something I’ve been thinking about recently is… well the governance structure of a small company (dictatorship of one person over 3-8 people, who all have the option to leave), vs the same company several years/scale increases later. (A company of millions of people which effectively acts as a large piece of infrastructure in the country it lives in, yet is still goverened by private interests)
It kind of feels like different governance structures are warrented… and should be legally mandated.
Like… I want small start ups to do what they want.
I want Amazon to slow morph into a democratically run piece of infrastructure, as opposed to a monopoly, as it gets bigger. I want medium sized companies to have a sort of semi-democracy, where the CEO/board steer the ship, but the staff are INVOLVED in the decision making.
How do we do this?
Can a company set itself up with a governance structure which is explicitly designed to change with scale. Should the government say “You have more than a million staff. You are actually a government department now”? Or, like… maybe we don’t trust governments? (I do, but I live in a country with high trust, not everyone has that, so whatever).