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If Google employees were swapped with Microsoft employees, what would happen? (quora.com)
3 points by BerislavLopac on April 21, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


The pioneering systems theorist Donella Meadows has a lot of insight on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ1STks8MUU

Her answer would probably be something like, "taking out the old people and putting in new ones won't change anything, unless the new people change the system."

"The system" doesn't mean the CI pipeline or internal communication tools, but in a systems theoretic sense. See the video.




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