This lines up with what I’ve seen at EA orgs. People don’t always agree on how things should be run, but they almost always share a common goal. I also expect that most EA orgs are much more flat/​democratic than the average private corporation. (For example, CEA has managers and people who are managed, but in most team meetings and on Slack, seniority matters much less than your direct experience with an issue and the strength of your ideas.)
It’s been my experience that while people in EA-aligned orgs usually share a common goal, disagreements about how things should be run, especially between a Board of Directors, and the paid employees of the org, is such that it is generally enough of a problem to be a point in favour of transitioning to structuring NPOs as worker cooperatives to reduce conflict between different vested interests. I believe this would be true of the non-profit sector in general, and not limited to EA. I’m not convinced EA tends to be dramatically better or worse on this front than other movements professionally based in the non-profit sector such that I’d put much stock in the testimony of any one individual on this subject.
This lines up with what I’ve seen at EA orgs. People don’t always agree on how things should be run, but they almost always share a common goal. I also expect that most EA orgs are much more flat/​democratic than the average private corporation. (For example, CEA has managers and people who are managed, but in most team meetings and on Slack, seniority matters much less than your direct experience with an issue and the strength of your ideas.)
It’s been my experience that while people in EA-aligned orgs usually share a common goal, disagreements about how things should be run, especially between a Board of Directors, and the paid employees of the org, is such that it is generally enough of a problem to be a point in favour of transitioning to structuring NPOs as worker cooperatives to reduce conflict between different vested interests. I believe this would be true of the non-profit sector in general, and not limited to EA. I’m not convinced EA tends to be dramatically better or worse on this front than other movements professionally based in the non-profit sector such that I’d put much stock in the testimony of any one individual on this subject.