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The Blood Sport of Ruthless Execution and the Strategy of Saying No

LEGAL DISCLAIMER AND SURVIVAL GUIDE: The following article is a work of high-octane, hallucinogenic fiction. If you read a sentence and think, “Wait, that sounds exactly like my Monday morning stand-up,” that is just your suppressed corporate trauma speaking. Any resemblance to actual persons (living, dead, or currently wearing a Patagonia vest in a coworking space), actual companies, or actual “game-changing” cloud telephony startups is entirely coincidental—in the same way that a power cut in Bangalore hitting exactly when you have a critical deployment is a “coincidence.

Why organizations should worry about Optimism Bias and structure its KPIs carefully ?

Products are built the same way life has evolved and will keep on evolving in the future. The Red Queen Effect defines it well that how organisms must constantly adapt, evolve and proliferate in order to survive when pitted against ever evolving rival organisms in a constantly changing environment. Most of the technology companies across the world have very similar organisational structures.