That’s the edgy cynical thing, and too reductive to be meaningful. For one thing, it assumes perfect knowledge of how a decision will impact sales, which I assure you is not remotely the case.
Agreed on incentives, but it’s not binary. I’ve been involved in plenty of decisions in multiple Fortune 500’s where the deciding factors were taste, wanting or not wanting to work with a particular partner, etc.
I guess I’m saying that seeing corporate behavior as perfectly informed, single-goal-optimized, and deterministic is way oversimplifying. Often, not always.
That’s the edgy cynical thing, and too reductive to be meaningful. For one thing, it assumes perfect knowledge of how a decision will impact sales, which I assure you is not remotely the case.
Agreed on incentives, but it’s not binary. I’ve been involved in plenty of decisions in multiple Fortune 500’s where the deciding factors were taste, wanting or not wanting to work with a particular partner, etc.
I guess I’m saying that seeing corporate behavior as perfectly informed, single-goal-optimized, and deterministic is way oversimplifying. Often, not always.