Again the main thing is that you cannot believe the corporate world is intrinsically good or that its arc bends towards moral or ethical justice. It absolutely does not. Look at all the women who lost their jobs to Glenn Thrush or Mark Halperin or Matt Lauer.
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Yes, one thing I haven't seen mentioned yet in my reading (maybe covered in later chapters?) is the effect that strong mission-oriented leadership *can* create an organizational alignment that overcomes the Gervais hierarchy. It's necessary but not sufficient.
Pournelle’s iron law of bureaucracy suggests this can’t happen. https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html …
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What people think of as “strong mission-oriented org” one of two things is happening: Either the mission is bullshit B-Corp corporate virtue signaling and is all theater OR there is an asshole at the top, whose jerk qualities are masked under charisma except to direct reports.
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I have never met an org of the first type where the rank-and-file actually buy the bills hit theater. I wrote this about the latter “asshole at the top” syndrome a few years after the fervais series.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/09/12/the-exercise-of-authoritah/ …
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