[pitched]

People with a lot of personal agency in this way will also slow things down by expecting rational decisions from management and asking questions when they aren’t. I think this makes for a fantastic partner, peer or co-worker but a horrible employee. So I don’t think it’s too surprising that most hiring managers will be actively filtering them out.

As someone who does very highly value this way of thinking though, how would you try to detect it in an interview setting as an interviewee? That’s like asking them if they have good culture.

[charlie0]

So the alternative is for management to be surrounded by "yes" people?

[pitched]

If that wasn’t pretty widely true, would the meme exist?

[charlie0]

I mean it is true, but I disagree with your prior comment that people with agency slow things down. It may appear that way, but really, they speed things up and the answer is simple. People with agency scale... a lot. If decision making is centralized, it's like communism, it might work at small scale, but won't past a certain point because the centralized points bottleneck the entire system to the point where it can't operate effectively.