If you mean cliché as in "widespread and pre-eminent" then I agree, because that it's a fair description of Japanese work culture. The jerk side of it is taken care of by the hierarchy, those who are above you may be a jerk to you, and those on a similar level will instead use passive aggressive tactics but are incredibly unlikely to be a Torvalds style jerk.
If you want to point out where the extra complication is, I'd love to know.
The original comment was "no one ever criticized any decisions any team member made even if they were both impactful and objectively terrible."
That is just false at every level you can imagine. I mean, could a developed country even function under this conditions ? Every team member in most companies would need to get it right in the first try a crazy amount of time for a company to have any reasonable profits, that's just crazy.
On the jerkitude, yes you need to calibrate for the culture observed. They won't be shouting insanities in the open-space, but it's also way more direct that passive aggressiveness: spending 15 mins getting lectured by a coworker at your desk on why your last report is full of errors and you're not pulling your weight is basically as effective in context.
That’s too cliche. As a counterpoint, HP and IBM are US firms and also get no shit done. And Japanese groups have their share of jerks, in spades.
Issue is not jerks vs consensus, it’s way more complicated than that.
If you mean cliché as in "widespread and pre-eminent" then I agree, because that it's a fair description of Japanese work culture. The jerk side of it is taken care of by the hierarchy, those who are above you may be a jerk to you, and those on a similar level will instead use passive aggressive tactics but are incredibly unlikely to be a Torvalds style jerk.
If you want to point out where the extra complication is, I'd love to know.
The original comment was "no one ever criticized any decisions any team member made even if they were both impactful and objectively terrible."
That is just false at every level you can imagine. I mean, could a developed country even function under this conditions ? Every team member in most companies would need to get it right in the first try a crazy amount of time for a company to have any reasonable profits, that's just crazy.
On the jerkitude, yes you need to calibrate for the culture observed. They won't be shouting insanities in the open-space, but it's also way more direct that passive aggressiveness: spending 15 mins getting lectured by a coworker at your desk on why your last report is full of errors and you're not pulling your weight is basically as effective in context.
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