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		loeg 25 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't avoid workplace politics C-suite only get credit for changes, so they are incentivized to make changes at random and hope some of them turn out to look good in hindsight.

skirmish 25 days ago [–]

As I heard once, in a large company VPs are rated by the number of reorgs they initiated per year. That explained so much insanity I have seen: a project gets moved to different directors, then after 5 reorgs ends up in its original place. Just large company things, VPs have to show "impact" where there is none.

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