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> I think there sin runs more along the lines of being extremely naive [...] which would be maybe more excusable if it didn't come from the guys who wrote seve

• kbenson 6y ago
  That's a good reason not to be sympathetic to them in particular. I guess you could say I'm sympathetic to some degree to the problem they were presented, but it was definitely of their own creation, so they shouldn't get a pass. I mean, it's easy to think you're doing well because you got lucky in personnel and timing for how things went, but maybe have a bit more introspection before writing a book about it and how good your ideas were (there's a lot of non-fiction that could be said about...).
• prawn 6y ago
  Is that more naivety though? Writing, thinking that they have the answer (or some of them) and then hitting something new that was yet to be seen in their working lives? If I have sympathy for them, I think it would be because I could see myself making the exact same mistakes: writing confidently as my business road a wave of great timing, thinking that emboldened and involved employees were great for company culture, and then deciding that maybe it was a risky distraction.