I'm reminded of Robert Anton Wilson's SNAFU Principle: "Communication is only possible between equals." [0] Formal hierarchies can create perverse incentives th

I'm reminded of Robert Anton Wilson's SNAFU Principle: "Communication is only possible between equals." [0] Formal hierarchies can create perverse incentives that discourage passing vital information up the chain, lest you make someone in power look bad, or stick your neck out as a troublemaker / "not a team player" / etc. While a good manager can mitigate the problem by cultivating mutual trust, individually and culturally, the problem gets compounded when hierarchies become nested, and the org scales beyond the Dunbar Number. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAFU_Principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAFU_Principle