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	<title>Comments on: Extraordinary Organizations: $170M company with no titles except &quot;plant&quot; manager</title>
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	<description>Good advice for startups.</description>
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		<title>By: NeilCauldwell</title>
		<link>http://venturehacks.com/articles/extraordinary-organizations/comment-page-1#comment-1016</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One of my lecturers used a case study on a company called Oticon, a hearing aid manufacturer who removed their organisational structure to become a &#039;spaghetti organisation&#039; (Sun Hydraulics appear to have a similar strategy); http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/18/afghanistan.terrorism14

My concern with spaghetti organisations is that you&#039;re potentially employing (or attempting to employ, and completely dependent on) people who&#039;ll quickly come to believe they&#039;re capable of running their own company, or, at the very least, quickly outgrowing the space available in your company. Web start-ups would probably be more vulnerable to this, though; I&#039;m sure the market place for hydraulic cartridge valves has high(ish) barriers to entry.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of my lecturers used a case study on a company called Oticon, a hearing aid manufacturer who removed their organisational structure to become a &#8216;spaghetti organisation&#8217; (Sun Hydraulics appear to have a similar strategy); <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/18/afghanistan.terrorism14" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/18/afghanistan.terrorism14</a></p>
<p>My concern with spaghetti organisations is that you&#8217;re potentially employing (or attempting to employ, and completely dependent on) people who&#8217;ll quickly come to believe they&#8217;re capable of running their own company, or, at the very least, quickly outgrowing the space available in your company. Web start-ups would probably be more vulnerable to this, though; I&#8217;m sure the market place for hydraulic cartridge valves has high(ish) barriers to entry.</p>
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		<title>By: ph0rque</title>
		<link>http://venturehacks.com/articles/extraordinary-organizations/comment-page-1#comment-1015</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sounds very much like Semco.</description>
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