The incentive is more strongly aligned with the latter one than the former one.
I'm going through a bit of a phase at the moment, so I'm biased. It's "show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome".
I used to find that an interesting idea, not sure if true or not. Nowadays a few years later, I'm almost hyper focusing on it, because I'm noticing that it is mostly true. Like, there's some room for individuality but when things _matter_ (e.g. livelihood, etc.), then the incentive seems paramount for most people.
True. Also paradoxically, managers are the most likely to have negative value for the company, running entire departments or projects into the ground. Yet you rarely see this being reflected.
I had one that fired everyone he hired, I was the last one and one other guy, I got the can for sticking up for the other guy, and the other guy got a demotion. Eventually when things at the company were bad enough the manager got the can with a ton of other managers.
My friend who is still there says this is his last ever programming job, after that manager he wants nothing to do with this industry, and that is a shame.
I'm going through a bit of a phase at the moment, so I'm biased. It's "show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome".
I used to find that an interesting idea, not sure if true or not. Nowadays a few years later, I'm almost hyper focusing on it, because I'm noticing that it is mostly true. Like, there's some room for individuality but when things _matter_ (e.g. livelihood, etc.), then the incentive seems paramount for most people.