Valve's flat management structure 'like high school'
Ah, the tyranny of structurelessness: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessness" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessnes...</a><p>Seriously - in the absence of formal power structures, informal ones will always form, and they are often less accountable and fair than formal ones.