This is extremely true of companies and teams, and an underappreciated area of endeavor is setting the ambient resting state level of productivity high. Most organizations do not, for a host of reasons.https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1221664812322570240 …
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And/or see the Spider-Man cancer/dinosaur panel. “Wait with your team and budget you could get so much done for our mission this quarter.” “But I don’t particularly care about our mission. I care about getting promoted.” “Wait how are you here.” “I am very good at getting here.”
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“...” “Or our organization is very good at putting me in a position of influence. Six of one half dozen of the other.” “I don’t suppose we could change your incentivize structure to be more in line...” “Already rooted my incentive structure. I am much better at this game.”
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“Wait that isn’t possible.” “I mean you specialize in spending 95% of your cycles on the mission and I specialize in spending 95% of my cycles on incentives. Of course I will win any contest here by crushing margins.” “Nobody detected your insincerity?” “Oh you innocent child.”
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"I mean you're shouting it from the rafters." "Plausibly nobody is more sincere in this company about our incentive structures which, and I hate to keep bringing this up but it is important you understand this, I have rooted. I can speak passionately and at length about them."
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slowly realizing over months all my initiatives failed because everyone else on my team wanted the project to fail forever rather than succeed quickly was a big part of why I decided to start a company rather than find a new job
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lol i have known MORE THAN ONE
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