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That's actually how it works in regular corporate hierarchies too. Those who are good at politicking, making friends with higher-ups and know how to cover their
by jameslk 11y ago
That's actually how it works in regular corporate hierarchies too. Those who are good at politicking, making friends with higher-ups and know how to cover their asses usually outperform (success-wise) those who just do a good job. A good well-cited read on this is Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't.
- bane 11y agoTrue, all groups of humans form informal hierarchies, even in the presence of formal power structures. What formal hierarchies have that flat organizations don't is the ability of the formal hierarchy to use normative actions to drive the optimization function to favor the organization and not the people at the top of the informal hierarchy. e.g. a loud mouthed developer can't force the CEO to do something they don't want, while a CEO can fire a disruptive employee