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Bureaucrat Mode

The road to hell is paved via collaboration, consensus, inclusiveness, stability

It’s easy to beat up on these ideas We can read the above list and laugh (and cry a little too) but of course they fundamentally are the result of good intentions. The reason is that companies that highly prize consensus, process, etc., will inevitably hire the people who are good at executing against this set of constraints. I saw this first hand at Uber, which was respected as the fastest-moving big company led by an aggressive founder, and eventually things got bogged down as it grew.

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