Comment by AtlasBarfed
5 days ago
Major companies like that become infected with large hierarchies of scum sucking middle management that eat revenue with bonuses.
Of course they are obsessed with shrinking labor costs and resisting all downsizing until it reaches comical levels.
Take a company like health insurance that can't show a large dividend because it would be a public relations disaster. Filled to the gills with vice presidents to suck up extra earnings. Or medical devices.
Software is also very difficult for these hierarchies of overpaid management, because you need to pay labor well to get good software, and the only raison d'etre of these guys is wage suppression.
Leadership is hard for these managers because the primary thing rewarded is middle management machiavellianism, turf wars, and domain building, and any visionary leadership or inspiration is quashed.
It almost fascinates me that large company organizations basically are like Soviet style communism, Even though there are opportunities for internal competition. Like data centers and hosting and it groups. They always need to be centralized for" efficiency".
Meanwhile, they are like 20 data centers and if you had each of them compete for the company's internal business, they'd all run more efficiently.
probably because continuous competition is inefficient within an organization and can cause division/animosity between teams?
"within an organization and can cause division/animosity between teams"
Are you aware of what goes on in middle management? This is the normal state of affairs between managers.
If what you are saying is true, then .......
Why is there competition in the open marketplace? You have just validated my suggestion that internally companies operate like communists.
i am not an expert, but i think the theory of competition leading to better outcomes in a marketplace is the availability of alternatives if one company went bad (in addition to price competition etc)
inside a company you are working for the same goal "against" the outside, so its probably more an artifact of how our economy is oriented
i'd guess if our economy was oriented around cooperation instead of "competition" (while keeping alternatives around) that dichotomy might go away...
just some random thoughts from an internet person