[tflinton]

Every large organization is going to have competing interests and ideas. Whether it’s a difference in priority or project approach or perhaps an entire product.

Knowing how to navigate conflict is essential to any relationship including professional one. In addition knowing how to well communicate (e.g., sell) your ideas (or youself) is also needed.

I get there’s toxic individuals to take this to a dark place as they would anything. But at its core I don’t see anything inherently evil about it, perhaps just that it can make manipulative people become more public.

[RHSman2]

Well said. It does follow the network effect of propagating through systems. It requires important nodes to not spread further down and the close collaboration of other supporting nodes.

Anyone slightly higher in the hierarchy can have an effect.