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The short and true answer is that THEY DON'T. Why is this? Because of the SNAFU Principle: "True communication is possible only between equals, because inferior
by Porthos9K 7y ago
The short and true answer is that THEY DON'T. Why is this? Because of the SNAFU Principle: "True communication is possible only between equals, because inferiors are more consistently rewarded for telling their superiors pleasant lies than for telling the truth."
Junior people almost never give senior people the unedited truth because doing so is a good way to end up unemployed. Instead, junior people figure out what senior people want to hear and tell them that instead.
https://foldoc.org/SNAFU%20principle https://foldoc.org/SNAFU%20principle
- Aperocky 7y agoHa, this is absolutely true, especially in more traditional companies dominated by a patrician management. I still wonder what happened to Randall Stephenson when AT&T decided to buy DirecTV for $67B in 2014. What could only be described as thinking completely in an isolated bubble. It seems that the survival of traditional companies are based on the sheer incompetence of competitors to continue allow the swallowing up of disaster after disaster committed by the management.
- nojvek 7y agoOr more likely they are so big that even decent sized fuckups every now and then don’t make much difference. For the mega corps, they could shave half their workforce and still be making the same amount of profits. Some companies just want to grow for the sake of growing and invent new problems to fill time.
- valand 7y agoI have a fortunate circumstance where supplying informations to direct reportee is acceptable. We value effective problem identifications, especially those that come with solutions.