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Re:‘Positive deviants’: Why rebellious workers spark great i... by lifeisstillgood on Monday June 14, 2021 @06:08AM (#27500950)
The whole reason for hierarchies (and democracies) is to avoid this "listening" crap anyhow.

No matter how brilliant, or well intentioned, no CEO can listen to all views from all experts - at a certain scale this goes from 'has other work to do' and flips into 'physically impossible'.

So, yes there is a reason "an engineer could not influence the decision making process of a manager. "

At some scales it is impossible. And if you mean why cant he influence the manager above him - yes thats fine. But that manager has f all chance of reaching the CEO as well. At certain points companies stop acting like autonomus agents and become, some kind of lava like process - predictable and impossible to stop.

maybe large firms are the problem overall

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Re:‘Positive deviants’: Why rebellious workers spark great i... by nicoburns on Monday June 14, 2021 @07:38AM (#27501415)
That's why they're not listening to everyone. They're listening to those who have managed to get their ear.
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Re:‘Positive deviants’: Why rebellious workers spark great i... by andrekandre on Saturday June 26, 2021 @08:19PM (#27647267)
that can lead to a lot of toxic situations and is not sustainable long term; it breaks expectations all across the board of fair arbitration that a manager/leader is supposed to do
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Re:‘Positive deviants’: Why rebellious workers spark great i... by dv_dt on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:19AM (#27503622)
Well that’s a ceo culture responsibility to not make themselves a bottleneck. Generally this is done by delegating more decision making expectations downward.
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