Ismail: Haier split 80,000 employees into 2,000 autonomous micro-enterprises
Salim Ismail · The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail · May 25, 2023 · at 33:50
Salim Ismail, co-author of Exponential Organizations, highlights corporate decentralization case studies.
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“They make fifty-five million fridges and ovens a year. There were 80,000 people in a classic pyramid structure, command and control, top-down, etc. CEO one day wakes up and goes, can't meet my corporate goals using this structure. Blows it up. Turns 80,000 people into 2000 individual teams of about 40 people each. Okay, each team has a P&L, each target, each team elects their own leader, and each team decides to do whatever they want to do.”
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