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Although I sometimes wonder how much survivor bias there is in these stories. How many misfit teams failed? Which is not to defend corporate hyper-control at
by TheOtherHobbes 2y ago
Although I sometimes wonder how much survivor bias there is in these stories.
How many misfit teams failed?
Which is not to defend corporate hyper-control at all. But I suspect that knowing how often skunkworks projects work, and how success can be affected by different personalities and corporate contexts, might be useful information.
- wslh 2y agoIt is more complex than that. In some fields there was a culture of labs and special projects. IBM, Bell Labs, Xerox, and many other companies followed that route and there were corporations with a lot of bureaucracy. Good thread in /r/AskHistorians: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1kxnd1/what_led_to_the_downfall_of_big_research_ie_bell/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1kxnd1/what_...