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The way a former boss explained it to me is that bosses need to form pyramids to support their own ascension. It is just subtribes within the big tribe fighting
by babesh 6y ago
The way a former boss explained it to me is that bosses need to form pyramids to support their own ascension. It is just subtribes within the big tribe fighting for power and dominance.
Those networks that you form to support your own rise are used by your boss to support their rise. You get promoted because you will make your own boss look better in the future. The second this ceases to be the case, you get discarded like a used tissue. Competence is very far down this equation.
I suspect this is almost universal. The only forcing function is what features the ultimate power selects for. A great CEO forces the subtribes to compete on the basis of value added.
We pretty much act the same way as those chimps in nature shows.
- tomrod 6y agoIn corporations, yes. Corporations are like communist governments without authorization for coercion -- relationships and networks determine your impact. If you sell a product, there is a different calculus for ascension.
- babesh 6y agoYes.
- amznthrowaway5 6y ago> Competence is very far down this equation. The worst part is when performance review time comes around. It's obvious to anyone looking at the situation objectively that competence doesn't matter much when choosing who to reward and who to fire, but seeing the tribe members pretend otherwise and target hard workers who aren't part of the clique is absolutely devastating to morale.