Another company, another re-org, but a totally different culture and vibe. Automattic are the software company behind Wordpress, still the dominant website builder worldwide, make a short announcement that CEO Matt Mullenweg is going to take a 6 month sabbatical, and that everyone can now apply for different roles in the organisation and gather resources to achieve self directed goals.
It’s totally left field decentralisation. Compare to the many posts of Xooglers who lament the bureaucratisation of a once rapid, innovation first business - Ian Hickson’s
Reflecting on 18 years at Google is probably the pick of the bunch