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Companies do so many other things to bury innovation that worrying about the lack of spontaneous hallway meetings should be item #237. So many innovations don’
by MattGaiser 5y ago
Companies do so many other things to bury innovation that worrying about the lack of spontaneous hallway meetings should be item #237.
So many innovations don’t get done for lack of authority to spend $20 on some Lambda functions or the unwillingness of departments to own small things or a need to manage future expectations (I.e we can’t improve this too much as we can’t match that later). Encountered all three.
- LordHumungous 5y agoSo true.
- wobbly_bush 5y ago> a need to manage future expectations (I.e we can’t improve this too much as we can’t match that later) Can you elaborate on this (to the extent you can publicly say)? I'm curious in what circumstances are companies opting to forgo innovations.
- MattGaiser 5y agoThe team didn’t want to improve too much as they saw no way to repeat the improvement so they didn’t want to raise the bar and be unable to clear it next cycle. A more concrete example of this was where a friend of mine built a system to automate a report and did something in record time. He didn’t share it and sat on the report for a few days as he wasn’t that proficient with SQL at the time so didn’t want to give the impression that things could be done that quickly and make that the expected norm. So the company itself would have liked the innovation. The employees were concerned about the new problematic expectations it might create.