no way around the fact that entrepreneurs cause trouble! They foment conflict. Many internal startups are intentionally designed to challenge existing biases or sacred cows. This conflict will always—always!—wind up climbing the chain of command. Even if the startup’s immediate manager has been trained in the Startup Way, what about all the other managers above her or him? You never know who the entrepreneurs are going to be. We’ll see this idea again in the next chapter, but startup-style meritocracy is a little different than what most people are used to. Even if you wanted to design a
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