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The other part being that, in a startup, you'll be rewarded if things go well. In a corporate environment, many times you won't be.
by s73v3r 12y ago
The other part being that, in a startup, you'll be rewarded if things go well. In a corporate environment, many times you won't be.
- dmichulke 12y agoYes, start-ups die if they are not meritocratic. Big companies are only prepared to give you X% of your annual salary as a bonus if you're good (with X < 15%). So the bigger the upside of your "innovation", the more you will find the company and its reward model unfair and leave. So big companies lose the best employees and so have to buy back innovation by buying start-ups.
- IanCal 12y agoWhen designing any system that involves people, it's vital to see what behaviours optimise your rewards. Usually there is some general process / overall plan you're supposed to follow: Follow the plan | Don't follow the plan Things go well | reward | unknown Things go badly | no punishment | punishment That is a setup which encourages people to follow the plan even if they think it's not the best one. Something else which makes this quite difficult is that you never know what would have happened if you'd jumped columns.