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The frustrating thing is, all the assumptions here really should be true. Big corps should be the best place to do focussed, meaningful work on a product you be
by stupidcar 6y ago
The frustrating thing is, all the assumptions here really should be true. Big corps should be the best place to do focussed, meaningful work on a product you believe in. And start-ups, with all their constraints in terms of budget, personnel, brand recognition, sales, etc. should be the worst.
I still hold out hope than some day someone will crack how to structure large organisations in a way that eliminates or minimises the politics and dysfunction while retaining the economies of scale. I feel like this will require a radically different approach, with innovative legal and technical structures to enforce the right incentives.
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoMy big organization has good management. What the author writes about is ineffective management, which should have economic consequences, so when director asks upper management for funding, I suspect, his ineffective management will raise questions if not replacement. We have surveys what employees think about quality of management and other things. The organization participates in manager ratings. I think the quality of management is simply monitored here and can't go unnoticed. Or maybe it's not big enough? It's certainly much bigger than startup size.