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Re:Google's Growing Silence on Saving Open Internet Leaves F... by sophacles on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @05:55PM (#8006924)
Not defending google. Actually just slightly ranting on a tangent... Google today is not google 5 years ago. There are different employees, different managers, etc. To say that google (an entity with a single agency, as if it was a single person) "hustled" us by going through these changes is just not an accurate statement .
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Re:Google's Growing Silence on Saving Open Internet Leaves F... by dragonwriter on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @07:38PM (#8007338)
> Why would middle management changes affect their culture and principles significantly?

Because middle management acts as a filter on upper management's view of operations, and a filter between upper management and the people actually doing the work when it comes to directions going the other way. The effect Bruce Webster calls "thermocline of truth" [1] is one significant manifestation of this.

[1] http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/15/the-wetware-crisis-the-t...

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