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by jonfw 762 days ago
Who doesn’t want a big win, quickly, for cheap?
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So cycle through as many workers as possible and just keep the shining stars? Incredibly demoralizing and chaotic.
That would require the ability to recognize and reward excellence, which you don’t see very often. Instead, they tend to go out of their way to try to make everyone feel replaceable and temporary.
I think Microsoft may have tried that. How else could they have created 80 million lines of Microsoft Office code?