Most organizations are designed to resist change and enfeeble employees. When I tell CEOs that many Googlers can nominate themselves for promotion, or that they can ask our CEO any question, the most common response is that it sounds great in theory but would never work at their company: People won’t focus on their real work; gathering all those facts would just slow us down (!); the lawyers won’t let us do it; people (the very ones that are their “most important asset”) won’t make good decisions; I like my special parking space. … But it does work. You just need to fight the petty seductions
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