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The military also has a peculiar behavior of punishing leadership for failures instead of promoting them or giving them a golden parachute. Telling engineers to
by lovich 4y ago
The military also has a peculiar behavior of punishing leadership for failures instead of promoting them or giving them a golden parachute. Telling engineers to fulfill the expectations of their managers is more of survival advice.
Granted this does not hold for 1) small startups where everyone has influence on the direction of the product and bureaucracy hasn't taken hold yet, and 2) FAANGS for the most part appear to operate under military like organization and allow for IC's to make decisions without 12 levels of approval.
- lifeisstillgood 4y agoThe US Army in WWII is known for moving and reassigning top ranking generals - failure was more a case of "you failed at amphibious landings in Pacific but now go do Air cover in Europe." But in general I feel if you want people to take risks for you, it's best that you pay them so much they stop having worries at home and just have worries at work. Executing people for failure looks like it gets results, but often it just gets results hidden
- lovich 4y agoAs opposed to execs getting rewarded no matter what so they can be open about their failures that they won’t resolve. There is a point to not executing people for failures so that information isn’t hidden but when “not getting paid massive amounts of compensation” is equivalent to execution I think you’re going to have the same bad behaviors.