Organization Models

Why join an organization (esp BigCo, but even SmallCo), vs try to survive as a Free Agent/One Man Show?

If you're going to join or create an organization, how can you avoid the crap generally associated with working for "other people"?

Traditional organizational structures

• functional structure
• divisional structure (aggregations of relatively independent products or markets served by cross-functional groups)
• matrix management

Is the Open Source movement instructive?

"newer" models

• holacracy
• Valve Software, GitHub, etc.(2012-12-08) Bowkett Management Gamification Github Valve Skyrim

Charles Handy talks about the "federated" or "Inverted Doughnut" model: small core team, OutSourcing the rest.

Network Economy, Business Web, Self Organizing, Virtual Company

Fast Company article Size is not a Strategy profiles new books proposing distributed models...

Unusual examples: Ricardo Semler, W L Gore.

The Minciu Sodas thinktank in Latvia is looking to fund a business "ecosystem".

• (comment) Minciu Sodas is in Lithuania! (which is next door) I don't know where this fits, but we're figuring out a team-building service http://www.ms.lt/team/ and we just got our first client, Ian Bruk. A team of 30 people for $2,000 a year is pretty cool, I think.