Re:Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent Colleg...
by jariel on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:56PM
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" the org itself is most likely biased to just doing things the way it's always been done."
This is powerful, and true, because often nobody has the power to change anything.
This is why 'funder led' companies can have an advantage, founders have that 'mythical status' that enables them to move the needle on projects. Of course this can be bad as well, but hopefully the bad ones fail early.
Even 'good companies' are full of cruft and bureaucracy - Google, Apple, MS, FB no exception. It seems the 'good companies' are able to move the pieces they need to move quickly enough to steer towards market needs, knowing large chunks of the company will be left behind.
Think of all the Apple apps that have only marginally changed in a decade, and how many zillions of devs are working on them.
This is powerful, and true, because often nobody has the power to change anything.
This is why 'funder led' companies can have an advantage, founders have that 'mythical status' that enables them to move the needle on projects. Of course this can be bad as well, but hopefully the bad ones fail early.
Even 'good companies' are full of cruft and bureaucracy - Google, Apple, MS, FB no exception. It seems the 'good companies' are able to move the pieces they need to move quickly enough to steer towards market needs, knowing large chunks of the company will be left behind.
Think of all the Apple apps that have only marginally changed in a decade, and how many zillions of devs are working on them.