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> The problem isn’t politics itself. It’s dysfunction, aka “dark patterns” aka antisocial behavior. One thing I commonly see and wouldn't consider antisocial b
by rifung 8y ago
> The problem isn’t politics itself. It’s dysfunction, aka “dark patterns” aka antisocial behavior.
One thing I commonly see and wouldn't consider antisocial behavior is the competition for promotions. In smaller companies this may be multiple people who want to become managers/leads of a team. In larger companies, this could be members of the same team both wanting the more impactful or difficult projects.
I'm not really sure what you can do about that though. This just seems like a consequence of judging people based on their past work as opposed to their potential or ability. I'm not sure one could actually find a means to measure ability without looking at past work, especially for something as abstract as managing or programming.
- mindgam3 8y agoI think healthy, fair competition is not antisocial or dysfunctional at all. Where it gets dysfunctional is people doing all the lying cheating and backstabbing to get the prize. But this is inevitable when you have people of different levels fighting for a rare resource. It takes a strong company culture to keep things functional. The other challenge here is that many times star performers are coddled and given leeway to act in antisocial ways, out of fear of losing them to a competitor. This leads to their behavior being viewed as normal and emulated by others. Left unchecked eventually the whole thing devolves into, well, most of corporate America and an increasing percentage of startup offices.