| The plurality of employees are not the innovators that made the breakthrough possible in the first place. People are not interchangeable. Most employees may have bills to pay, and will follow the money. The ones that matter most would have different motivation. Of course, of your sole goal is to create a husk that milks the achievement of the original team as long as it lasts and nothing else — sure, you can do that. But the "organizational desires" are still desires of people in the organization. And if those people are the ducks that lay the golden eggs, it might not be the smartest move to ignore them to prioritize the desires of the market for those eggs. The market is all too happy to kill the ducks if it means more, cheaper eggs today. Which is, as the adage goes, why we can't have the good things. |
It always rubs me the wrong way when people justify going for more money as "having bills to pay". No they don't, this makes it seems as if they're down on their luck and have to hustle to pay bills which is far from reality. I am not shaming people for wanting more money of course, but after a certain threshold, framing it as an external necessity is dishonest.