The company with no boss

[00:00.14] What would work be like if you had no boss? Imagine you could make all your own decisions and no one told you what to do.如果没有老板，工作会怎样？想象一下，您可以自己做出所有决定，而没有人告诉您该怎么做。

[00:07.31] One company decided to find out if it could work.一家公司决定看看它是否可行。

[00:10.50] The staff at Crisp, a Swedish software consultancy, chose to get rid of their CEO and create a completely flat organisation. 瑞典软件咨询公司 Crisp 的员工选择摆脱他们的 CEO 并创建一个完全扁平的组织。

[00:19.26] Having trialled several different management structures, the firm agreed to take the radical step of having no single leader.在尝试了几种不同的管理结构后，该公司同意采取没有单一领导者的激进措施。

[00:26.17] First, they needed to establish what a CEO actually did. Then they shared those duties out amongst staff and board members. 首先，他们需要确定 CEO 实际做了什么。然后他们在员工和董事会成员之间分担这些职责。

[00:34.41] Employee Yassal Sundman told the BBC: "When we looked at it we had nothing left in the CEO column, and we said, 'all right, why don't we try it out?'".员工 Yassal Sundman 告诉 BBC：“当我们查看它时，我们的 CEO 列中什么都没有，我们说，‘好吧，我们为什么不试试呢？’”。

[00:43.44] Which is exactly what they did. And Crisp employee, Heinrik Kniberg, believes it’s been a good move. 这正是他们所做的。 Crisp 的员工 Heinrik Kniberg 认为这是一个很好的举措。

[00:49.81] He says the company can now act faster: "If you want to get something done, you stand up and start driving that". Kniberg also claims workers are more motivated.他说公司现在可以更快地采取行动：“如果你想完成某件事，你就站起来开始推动它”。 Kniberg 还声称工人更有动力。

[00:56.19] Crisp regularly measures staff satisfaction, and say they average over four out of five.Crisp 定期衡量员工的满意度，并表示他们平均超过五分之四。

[01:06.01] Any big decisions are made during the company-wide four-day meetings several times a year. 任何重大决定都是在一年几次的全公司范围内的四天会议上做出的。

[01:11.33] They do still have a board: it’s a legal requirement. But the board can be used as a last resort to resolve tricky issues.他们仍然有董事会：这是法律要求。但董事会可以作为解决棘手问题的最后手段。

[01:17.97] So, if it’s working out for Crisp, could this model become more widespread? 那么，如果它适用于 Crisp，这种模式会变得更普遍吗？

[01:22.75] Online retailer Zappos tried out a similar plan but had mixed results. 在线零售商 Zappos 尝试了类似的计划，但结果喜忧参半。

[01:27.00] Almost a fifth of Zappos staff decided to leave, and chief executive Tony Hsieh admitted that "self-management is not for everyone".几乎五分之一的 Zappos 员工决定离开，首席执行官 Tony Hsieh 承认“自我管理并不适合所有人”。

[01:34.44] Founder of file-sharing service Dropbox, Drew Houston, believes that a leaderless structure is too chaotic.文件共享服务 Dropbox 的创始人 Drew Houston 认为，无领导的结构太混乱了。

[01:41.34] "Often infinite freedom like that can be pretty disorientating.“像这样的无限自由通常会让人迷失方向。

[01:44.80] It doesn't always feel good, because you no longer know what you're supposed to do, what's important and you're bumping up against other people," Mr Houston says.感觉并不总是很好，因为你不再知道你应该做什么，什么是重要的，而且你正在与其他人发生冲突，”休斯顿先生说。

[01:54.09] So, what is the perfect balance? How do you keep accountability in a company without hierarchy?那么，什么是完美的平衡呢？您如何在没有等级制度的公司中保持责任感？

[01:59.67] Would you like to work somewhere with no boss?你想在没有老板的地方工作吗？