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Great comment. Fun theory -- companies function on personal optics internally. When you sell software, you can get buy in easily if they can say "this'll make
by baetylus 3y ago
Great comment. Fun theory -- companies function on personal optics internally.
When you sell software, you can get buy in easily if they can say "this'll make me look excellent to my boss" (and they have decision-making power/budget of course). Similarly, a boss will promote subordinates who will make him/her look better.
- gottorf 3y agoPut another way, the incentives facing any single component of a greater whole does not always align with the incentives of the organization itself. In fact, you could say that a good measure of how well an organization is run is how closely those different incentives align.
- maxbond 3y agoIn economics, this is called the principle-agent problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...