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It's perplexed me, as well. What I've learned over the years with my current company may have an insight. When I joined, we were 50-100 employees. The tech was
by scruple 7y ago
It's perplexed me, as well. What I've learned over the years with my current company may have an insight. When I joined, we were 50-100 employees. The tech was good. Revolutionary, in it's context and industry. We were actually doing something useful and good and positive for other people. In the last 3 years, however, we have seen tremendous growth. We're now closer to 300 employees, if not more. The tech is less revolutionary. We're now in an innovation through acquisition phase.
What I see is: most of this new cohort has _no_ idea what our business is and they are overwhelmingly concentrated in middle management.
- m-ee 7y agoI think this is very common, seeing it where I currently work. This theory provides a depressing take on this phenomenon. People at the top like having an insulation of middle management under them, but these people don't actually understand the business or product so they just run around parroting business and tech words in an attempt to not get found outt. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...