A lot of this blog post topics are expressed in the Gervais Principle, which is an amazing (and long) reading I strongly suggest to the candid souls [0].
However, I think the following is really original content, and worth citing:
> Today I'm working on a quarter that is going to happen in 2020. Not next quarter. Next quarter for all practical purposes is done already and it has probably been done for a couple of years.
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> — Jeff Bezos, 2017
> The key to corporate opportunism is all there, in this quote. When a normal person reads it, he thinks "wow! Amazon is really thinking long term!" which is perhaps how Jeff intended it. But when an opportunist reads it, he thinks "wow! I can do anything I want for three years and it won't show up in the metrics!"
Yeah what a fun (fun? not sure) area of applied psychology. It's interesting to read about it because we sort of know this is how the game works sometimes, so it's refreshing have the safe context of a book that states it plainly.
Sometimes its hard to find candid takes on it, as either the weird pickup artist books take up all the bandwidth if one tries to google for it, or its "leadership books" that don't steer into the area for various reasons
However, I think the following is really original content, and worth citing:
> Today I'm working on a quarter that is going to happen in 2020. Not next quarter. Next quarter for all practical purposes is done already and it has probably been done for a couple of years. > > — Jeff Bezos, 2017
> The key to corporate opportunism is all there, in this quote. When a normal person reads it, he thinks "wow! Amazon is really thinking long term!" which is perhaps how Jeff intended it. But when an opportunist reads it, he thinks "wow! I can do anything I want for three years and it won't show up in the metrics!"
[0] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/