[selflesssieve]

Game theory suggests this is true. Dog eat dog. But do you think this is because incentives are misaligned, or do you think that even successful bootstrapped businesses, if around long enough, will fall victim to this culture?

[heavenlyblue]

>> will fall victim to this culture

The issue with this culture is that using optics to achieve an advantage generally works, but is not a good long-term--big-picture strategy.

So reasonably, of course you need to learn all of these quirks, just to be able to get rid of the vermin in your org.

[selflesssieve]

I agree if we decouple optics from genuine promotion in which an employee "manages upward" their true successes. I know that people are more nuanced than this and it's not black and white. So this will become quite tautological.