Agreed. It might (or might not) be lovely if personalities and culture and power and ways of learning didn't come into things, and everything was truly meritocratic/anarchist/optimised or whatever, but this is not the human condition, and never has been.
Much better to understand the working reality and either live with it or try to change it from a position of understanding.
This is what culture and history teach, whether its Xenophon or Succession.
Slightly off-topic generalisation, but maybe one of the reasons hackers disdain good management consultants, is that the latter are experts at understanding "the bits that are unspoken about the operating nature of a company", whereas the former see this as unnecessary overhead to doing what they want to do.
Much better to understand the working reality and either live with it or try to change it from a position of understanding.
This is what culture and history teach, whether its Xenophon or Succession.
Slightly off-topic generalisation, but maybe one of the reasons hackers disdain good management consultants, is that the latter are experts at understanding "the bits that are unspoken about the operating nature of a company", whereas the former see this as unnecessary overhead to doing what they want to do.