typical "I don't understand it so it's bullshit" rant. pinning it on "motivation" is very naive and highlight lack of self reflection or understanding on the to

typical "I don't understand it so it's bullshit" rant. pinning it on "motivation" is very naive and highlight lack of self reflection or understanding on the topic. the mission has a very real objective, which is align everyone own goals to the overal goals. it's a protection against micromanagement. it enables manager in the org to self check if their goals are aligned to where the company wants to be instead of bubbling up to leadership every single decision in turn, if the management goals are all aligned, cross development collaboration is much more likely, because both team share similar goals and kpi and will have concrete benefit in collaborating reaching these in turn each developer has a set target, and doesn't need to bubble up to management every decision. it is enabled to decide autonomously which course of action aligns the daily task with the yearly goal, benefitting indirectly from a clear mission in term of needing less micromanagement. now that's the optimum and not always the case, typical failure scenario include bad mission, unaligned goals or unrelated kpi, there are more than a few companies where the whole chain breaks here or there, but that doesn't mean the underlying principle is sound: substituting direct guidance with guidelines removes micromanagement and enable roles autonomy. it's quite common for developer "not seeing it" because they don't really engage in thinking why and what would be the alternative, or because they have been in suboptimal working places, but before calling any universal truth maybe the writer should have done some cursory research on the topic at the very least and merged his anectdotes with the underlying theory to contrast where things went wrong. beside the bit around valve is also a bit miopyc. even if they don't call it mission, they have a clear vision and they say as much: "Our platform connects players with the world's greatest entertainment. " and the product goals derive from that. and in the end, the true colors of the poster finally shows: > cut the crap about socially concerned goals