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by marcus_holmes 29 days ago
yeah I see where you're going. But it doesn't address the politics/management problem - large orgs invariably generate internal politics as their incentives get misaligned with their objectives (the root cause of the 5-layer "pure manager" situation becomes a problem). Large orgs have to actually split off a smaller org (that doesn't have this problem) to actually do anything new.

The Innovator's Dilemma is a symptom of the same problem: a large org with an existing market cannot innovate because the incentives for management do not allow cannibalising the existing product sales to launch the new product.