{"id":1630,"date":"2016-01-29T09:29:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T17:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2016-05-24T22:18:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T05:18:27","slug":"structure-without-a-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/structure-without-a-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Structure without a boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThese organizations manage to operate at very large scales \u2014 some have thousands or tens of thousands of employees \u2014 entirely without the pyramid, entirely without anyone being the boss of anyone else. And I know that sounds extraordinary \u2014 it sounds like a recipe for chaos. I mean, how could you run a large organization without hierarchy? It doesn&#8217;t make any sense. I wasn\u2019t expecting this when I started the research. [But]\u00a0what I found out the truth is: yes, you need structure, but no, you don\u2019t need a boss.\u00a0This is really a place where we need to upgrade our thinking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">-Frederic Laloux, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reinventingorganizations.com\"><em>Reinventing Organizations<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n(excerpt from his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gcS04BI2sbk\" target=\"_blank\">talk<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThese organizations manage to operate at very large scales \u2014 some have thousands or tens of thousands of employees \u2014 entirely without the pyramid, entirely without anyone being the boss of anyone else. And I know that sounds extraordinary \u2014 it sounds like a recipe for chaos. I mean, how could you run a large &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/structure-without-a-boss\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Structure without a boss&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}