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To quote: No one ever got fired for buying IBM. If you're working for a large, bureaucratic organization, producing a radically different solution can be a car
by downerending 7y ago
To quote: No one ever got fired for buying IBM.
If you're working for a large, bureaucratic organization, producing a radically different solution can be a career-limiting move, even if it's a success and the problem is quite important. (Or perhaps especially if it's quite important.)
- cutemonster 7y ago> a radically different solution can be a career-limiting move, even if it's a success Why / how can that happen?
- downerending 7y agoTypically politics, turf wars, etc. If you succeed quickly at something someone with pull has been working on unsuccessfully for a while, you can easily end up with a powerful enemy or just plain fired. In the real world, getting things done is not your job. Your job is to make your boss look good to his boss. In reasonably functional organizations, the former is aligned to the latter. But they are hardly the rule.
- cutemonster 7y agoThanks for explaining and the examples