All of these systems seem to reward the organization, not the individual. I’d go further: they actively harm workers. It’s less about strategy and more about psychological warfare dressed up as ambition. You’re told to collaborate, but punished for not competing.
Yep absolutely agree, Bette. What’s often framed as “strategy” is really a game of psychological endurance which rewards those who adapt to dysfunction rather than those who challenge it.
As you say, collaboration is encouraged rhetorically, but in practice, it’s individual competition that gets recognised and rewarded…
All of these systems seem to reward the organization, not the individual. I’d go further: they actively harm workers. It’s less about strategy and more about psychological warfare dressed up as ambition. You’re told to collaborate, but punished for not competing.
Yep absolutely agree, Bette. What’s often framed as “strategy” is really a game of psychological endurance which rewards those who adapt to dysfunction rather than those who challenge it.
As you say, collaboration is encouraged rhetorically, but in practice, it’s individual competition that gets recognised and rewarded…
Sounds like you have worked in some of the same places I have Fenix!