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In the big tech companies it is much harder to make the case for incremental improvements to existing products than it is to take on new disruptive problems.
by dman 6y ago
In the big tech companies it is much harder to make the case for incremental improvements to existing products than it is to take on new disruptive problems.
- setzer22 6y agoBut the opposite could be argued as well? Taking on a new disruptive problem is a huge risk, and big corps are generally risk averse...
- dman 6y agoDepends on the company - in a company like Amazon where Jeff is constantly pushing the envelope - standing still is the best recipe for falling behind. And you can see a hint of this happening in the article itself - the person running Books is given the reward of commoditizing Books as the reward of doing a great job of running Books. All the glory is in delivering new bigger and better things to Jeff, not in incrementally delivering 10% year over year improvements on an existing problem. In fact in such companies it can become difficult for managers to attract and retain ambitious talent to work on "incremental" things.