Inside GitHub's Super–Lean Management Strategy––And How It Drives Innovation

Imagine you could run a company on autopilot: no tier of "managers," just people creating value by doing what they love and letting the rest fall into place. How much money would you save by eliminating all that bureaucracy? How much faster could you move? How much conflict could you erase? How much bigger could you grow? How much more creative would the culture be?

There is at least one company that has been experimenting to get closer to the ideal: GitHub.

If you're not familiar with GitHub, ask a programmer. GitHub is a collaboration platform for software developers, used by 3 million people and quickly getting adopted by businesses. BusinessWeek called GitHub CEO Tom Preston–Warner "Grand Poobah of the software universe" back in June, not long after the company raised $100M to go after enterprise software development, mostly from from Andreessen–Horowitz.

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