Millennials really don't perceive hierarchies. They either don't perceive them or don't like them.
Before 20 or 25 employees, most companies are structured with everyone reporting to the founder. It's totally flat.
I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.
We're a movement of many people who are uniting from the bottom up. We don't have structures, hierarchies, bosses, secretaries... No one gives us orders.
We're not too top heavy with executives. I don't have to check with New York or L.A. My crew walks in, we talk about something, and either we do it or we don't. There's not a long, drawn out process.
My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and everyone is paid the exact same paycheck. It's a team model versus an individual model.
I try to grow my management team as entrepreneurs, make the structure decentralized.
The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.
In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.
I don't believe in traditional company structures because the best ideas do not always come from the top.
I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing. But I can't prove that. And there are no models.
There is nothing in the company that is either above or below me, as far as I'm concerned.
The best way to avoid bureaucracy is to have small teams who are empowered to make decisions and get their work done.
