The company was set up with no titles—ten thousand employees and not one manager. When people are first hired at Gore, they often start out wondering, Who’s my boss? Eventually, they realize there is no boss. The corporate structure is built around what Gore calls the Lattice, an elaborate networking system within the company that connects every employee to every other employee. When a new hire joins the company, their first relationship is with a sponsor (or mentor), “who will lend their credibility and their lattice to the new person, until that person has built up their own lattice,”
