If you: compete w/ your peers to get into the best grade school & compete w/ your peers to get into the best high school & compete w/ your peers to get into the best college & compete w/ your peers to get the best job, when do you learn to stop competing & start collaborating?
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I think about this every time I hear about Yet Another Google Messaging Product. It always boggles my mind that are teams that compete against each other at that company. What would happen if they all worked on one messaging product together?
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I don't think that's likely to happen though. You can't throw a bunch of hyper competitive type A's into a company together and then expect them to magically change their behavior and stop competing with one another. That's not how humans work, generally.
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I'm not sure there's a solution here. You can't really undo 12-15 years of being motivated to beat everyone in a month of on boarding, let alone a week of it, so the best solution is to redirect the competitive drive? Inculcate a "you only win if the company wins," ethos?
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That's equally challenging bc people *should* be looking to level themselves up & looking out for their own best interests along with the company's. So then there has to be work that marries growth of the individual w/ success of the company, but also feeds the competitive beast?
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Replying to @EricaJoy
Some companies like Microsoft focused on missions and big goals: "A PC for every desktop." Or on external competition (Netscape & Apple). Early Microsoft mediated competition quickly: Decisions went up to a common leader who made a final decision everyone would then follow
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Google used to baffle me: why did we launch so many competing products? It is not what I would do as CEO. I've since come to realize, though, that it often works; Google invests in a portfolio of products and the best one succeeds.
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I feel like a lot of the problem is incentives -- that the company has historically *rewarded* duplicating effort, because look shiny you launched something, and the company has failed to reward maintenance/incremental improvement work.
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That's how I feel about Google's interaction with musl.
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