Gigantic-scale businesses are different than startups, and with different problems and different avenues and different dynamics. As troubling as I find managem

Gigantic-scale businesses are different than startups, and with different problems and different avenues and different dynamics. As troubling as I find management built on an up-or-out career treadmill and deliberately roiling the employees and the bungee-bosses and the management schools, these are a counterintuitive and cut-throat and effective way to keep the management and the organizations from getting complacent. Commission sales folks are accustomed to the up-or-out model, too. This doesn't scale down to smaller businesses nor to startups, nor is it usually particularly necessary. And for all the reasons discussed elsewhere in replies elsewhere here. But the dynamics in bigger organizations are different than smaller ones. (And no, I never thought I'd be sort-of defending this approach, either.)