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Honestly this doesn't happen if you have a good corporate culture to begin with (which Google has not had for quite a while). I always go back to my experience
by xyzzy21 5y ago
Honestly this doesn't happen if you have a good corporate culture to begin with (which Google has not had for quite a while).
I always go back to my experience at HP when Bill and Dave were still alive: the leadership decision to trust employees was pretty much reciprocated so openness worked just fine.
So lack of leadership skill (especially an inability to "lead by example") is usually what causes this type of situation.
- amznthrwaway 5y agoA good rule of thumb as a leader, is that if you have more than 1,000 employees, at least 1 person is actively working to hurt the company. Lots of possible drivers from mental illness, to being paid by an unethical competitor, to just twisted ethics in response to some random situation…. But if you’ve got 1,000 employees, somebody is secretly trying to f* you.
- q1w2 5y agoThis is folly because it only takes ONE person to leak documents, and there are always disgruntled employees somewhere in a company at the scale we are talking about. You cannot assume good behavior of literally tens of thousands of employees because you have an overall "good" company culture. That's just impossible.