> ”By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact,” Wang writes in a memo seen by Axios.
That's kinda wild. I'm kinda shocked they put it in writing.
My leadership is currently promoting "better to ask forgiveness", or put another way: "a bias towards action". There are definitely limits on this, but it's been helpful when dealing with various internal negotiations. I don't spend as much time looking to "align with stakeholders", I just go ahead and do things my decades of experience have taught me are the right paths (while also using my experience to know when I can't just push things through).
If we are serious about productivity.
I helps to fire the managers. More often than not, this layer has to act in its own self interest. Which means maintaining large head counts to justify their existence.
Crazy automation and productivity has been possible for like 50 years now. Its just that nobody wants it.
Death of languages like Perl, Lisp and Prolog only proves this point.