> It's incredibly risky to rely on the specialized abilities or knowledge of any single employee.
That's just true. And the risk goes both ways. There's an ideology in administration, let's call it "anti-Deming" since I guess it's the most descriptive, that believes that risks only go one way.
The funny thing is that for minimizing their bets on individual contributors that are plentyful enough to hedge each other they automatically go and maximize their bets on management, focusing on a single person's skill to solve anything.
That's just true. And the risk goes both ways. There's an ideology in administration, let's call it "anti-Deming" since I guess it's the most descriptive, that believes that risks only go one way.
The funny thing is that for minimizing their bets on individual contributors that are plentyful enough to hedge each other they automatically go and maximize their bets on management, focusing on a single person's skill to solve anything.