alt Hacker NewsIt’s a flat management style, I love it and I appreciate people who are doing it, but throughout all the years I have only seen it done twice properly, of the already rare occasions of using it anyway. The vast majority are your typical corpo hierarchal BS, or even worse, a small early stage startup trying to pull the same corporate style, while mixing it with startup one resulting in the downside of both. In one company, the engineering manager wanted to have a daily standup with scrum style (apparently he wanted it because his wife was working in a remote silicon valley job and just knew about it..) for a team who none of them is working in the same product, and most aren’t even software, and got offended when get told it’s stupid and it’s better to use other approaches, of course he refused because it’s about power dynamics now, I left shortly with other 3 engineers in the same month due to bad management style.
Some styles may work better in a uniformed military environment than they would in the real world.
In the military, there are strict guidelines on conduct, whereas in the private sector, it's almost anything goes, and workers are often pushing the limits of what they can get away with.
Also, in the military, rank and pecking order are clearly established. Regardless of whether or not the style is "Leader-Leader", everybody knows where they stand with regard to who they need to salute, and who they must obey.