Komoroske: The fear of making your manager look dumb drives organizational dysfunction
Alex Komoroske · Thinking like a gardener, slime mold, the adjacent possible: Product advice from Alex Komoroske · Oct 3, 2024 · at 29:38
Alex Komoroske explains the systemic incentives behind organizational kayfabe and corporate dysfunction.
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“The underlying dynamic that must be true in any organization on a fundamental basis is you can't make your boss look dumb. Because if you do, they're the person who decides, oh, this person's not performing or whatever, and that one little asymmetry, that one little fact, in most cases it still does not matter, but that one little asymmetry is what leads to the systemic compounding thing where you get these really weird dysfunctional emergent things that everybody hates, nobody wants, and yet nobody is in a position to change, per se.”
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