A company is not a family. Netflix says it's a sports team. I think both are flawed metaphors but Netflix's is better. Here is why: Companies are a relatively new social structure. They are often bigger than a family or a tribe. Many are larger than Dunbar's number. Their myth (story) is not as deep or as strong as that of a religion, ethnicity or nationality. The company is usually a temporary structure, and membership is even more temporary. Belonging to the structure is based first and foremost on mutual benefits, and both sides are usually quite easy to replace. Families are small, permanent, and almost impossible to replace. So it's safe to say companies are not families. But are they like a sports team? The idea that each person must be a high performer, and play for the team, is a strong metaphor. The idea that you are judged continuously for performance, not tenure, paid for your performance let go when it's not beneficial for the company also seems a lot more honest to reality. But, sports teams are usually very small, have extremely clear objectives and rules. Companies are large, so that's already a big difference. You don't know most people and cannot develop trust with them. Companies have shifting goals which you are not always aware of, different sub groups have different agendas, and the rules of conduct are vague and vary per company. So again not like sports teams where the why, the what and how are super clear. Bottom line companies are large, temporary, low affinity, transactional, complex and ambiguous social structures. They are neither like families, religions, or sports teams. It's possible that leaders try to come up with metaphors to explain companies, simply because companies are hard to define... I guess companies are a category of their own. https://lnkd.in/dMyqf_Nf
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