100 times this. Eliminating structure just transfers the heavy lifting to informal mechanisms -- i.e. your &quot;culture.&quot; No culture is sufficiently well-defined that everybody has a consistent definition of it, meaning you will inevitably have a situation where 2 people are doing directly contradictory things in the name of the company culture. The whole situation at GitHub from a few years ago with a founder&#x27;s wife running reckless is a perfect example of this.<p>Ultimately there are probably non-hierarchical models that allow for effective and interesting coordination in certain types of small organizations (viz the Kibbutz), but Holocracy seems like it&#x27;s replacing Shit Umbrellas with Shit Centrifuges.