I think, this article has interesting thoughts, but as usual, you need to use your own judgement to understand the environment you’re in.
For example:
You’re the driver” is a key value for us at PostHog. We aim to hire people who are great at their jobs and get out of their way. No deadlines, minimal coordination, and no managers telling you what to do.
In return, we ask for extraordinarily high ownership and the ability to get a lot done by _yourself._ Marketers ship code, salespeople answer technical questions without backup, and product engineers work across the stack
This works great until end up with the codebase that has a unique flavor of the same wheels at every corner. Sure, there are ways of dealing with that, but you have to have those constraints beforehand.
However, the idea of limiting your collaboration and inviting only the relevant people into the decision making process, makes total sense. If your company growths, at some point it will grow beyond the point a single person can understand every aspect of your system. When it happens, sharing proposals to everyone wouldn’t, indeed, improve your collaboration and the team spirit; it would just generate noise. And when there is too much noise, it’s easy to lose important signals.
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