> A large corporation cannot seriously pretend to encourage their employees to "play to win" when it is structuring itself against that precisely.
I am not so sure it's that cut and dry. Even among the FANG, the desire to play to win is vastly different. I'd say Apple still has that mojo. Facebook also more than Google although that ship went south post-2018, I'd say.
Tesla comparatively underpaid and overworked people but I think they play to win.
SpaceX even more so. Folks who work hard there are excited to do so because they feel their work matters.
There are non-monetary structural features of large corporations that make them different on that metric. I think the desire at the top to want to win in the first place is critical, plus the autonomy at the lower level to ship cool ideas without much roadblock or dilution of contribution among way too many people.
I am not so sure it's that cut and dry. Even among the FANG, the desire to play to win is vastly different. I'd say Apple still has that mojo. Facebook also more than Google although that ship went south post-2018, I'd say.
Tesla comparatively underpaid and overworked people but I think they play to win.
SpaceX even more so. Folks who work hard there are excited to do so because they feel their work matters.
There are non-monetary structural features of large corporations that make them different on that metric. I think the desire at the top to want to win in the first place is critical, plus the autonomy at the lower level to ship cool ideas without much roadblock or dilution of contribution among way too many people.