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A Different Kind of DNA

A design and architecture meeting with teeth

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Flat. It’s an organizational meme in rapidly growing teams in Silicon Valley, and it contains a couple of noble ideas. Simply put, a flat organization is one with as little hierarchy as possible to encourage the individual voice. What’s not to love?

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© 2016 Michael Lopp

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Lopp, M. (2016). A Different Kind of DNA. In: Managing Humans. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2158-7_17

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