> It's not individual contributors responsible for bad quality. > It is corporate When dealing with corporations, that's _always_ the case. Even if it turns

> It's not individual contributors responsible for bad quality. > It is corporate When dealing with corporations, that's _always_ the case. Even if it turns out that a single person was able to make a large mistake that went unnoticed, guess what, it's still a corporate failure. > People instead value deadlines, ever advancing middle manager careers, and tiny differences in margin percentages. Of these, the managers trying to advance are the most harmful. I've seen situations where actions of managers trying to advance their careers actually caused harm to the company, but they were able to place the blame elsewhere. Some are pretty good at that.