The fake smiles, the fake platitudes, the fake conversation to pry out information to be used against a person.
Why is it such a big deal to disagree? Why can't we be comfortable with working with people with differegt belief systems and opinions? Don't all the books teach against having an echo chamber for a team and yet everywhere I see instances of leaders migrating towards people who resonate with their belief systems or act in a manner not akin to their personality.
Maybe I do not understand the game well enough. Maybe I do not understand people well enough. Maybe I am looking at it in through a narcissistic lens and am unable to see the objective point of view.
They say time teaches everything but I believe that the only thing that happens through passage of time is conformity. We stop asking questions and start building narratives and explanations as to why things are the way they are.
This is where young people/ people who have not been exposed to the system before come in. Especially the ones who do not shy away from iterating things as they see it. They call out the flaws and are not swayed by the window dressings or "you will not understand but this is how corporate works".
WHY?
Industry is not a person or a being. Every company or person at any point in time has the ability to stop and question why things have reached a point where there are a slew of processes to get anything done where there need not be one. Corporate structure and heirarchy seems to be designed to ensure glacial movement of ideas and subdugation of anything innovate through systemically designed pass-the-baton approvals.
But hey Alice, what do I know. I am just the lowest guy in my totem pole who doesn't know anything so obviously I am going to crib right.
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