- Flat. Small teams of cohorts around a mission.
- Titles are tied to functions and not status. Doer, Team Lead, Builder, Tester, Programmer, etc.
- Decision making is federated and consensus driven (think Paxos in computer science, if you know that).
- Responsibility before authority
- Open culture. Data is shared about customers, about problems, about performance, about salary, etc.
- Everyone is a leader or a potential leader.
- There are no specialists. Only problem solvers.
- People don't work for bonuses or payouts. There are way too many options to make money.
- Artificial pressures won't work. Passion and ownership trumps authority.
- More beneficial to collaborate than compete.
- No need to stay within any walls. Literally and metaphorically.
- No unproductive meetings. Small cohort stays focussed on the problem and always collaborating.
- The barrier to building tools to get a job done more efficiently is low.
- People will not be dependent on managers to solve their problems or approve a request for tools or software.
- There will be no managers. Only leaders.
- Companies that intersect where technology is heading will be relevant. Others not so.