While I feel for your general sentiment, I consider the view of "great team versus the evil organisation" somewhat outdated. I've seen teams that could not be less flexible despite being given every opportunity, and middle management that really brought the end-user front and centre.
Plus, the plain truth of it: not every team matters. Any large organisation will have teams that are doing valuable work supporting customers, but are not on the critical path for the current strategy. If you're on that team, your work is valuable and you're valued, but your work is less valuable than the other teams on the critical path. And they should not interrupt their current work to help you.
I'll update the post because that's not the point I am trying to make.
1) The Kraken is evil. The system makes people evil.
2) The people with the most power should change the system. Our leaders.
3) The system will even fight the leaders with guts and try to preserve the status quo
4) In a system with a large kraken, the people you make miserable will leave but those are exactly the people who you need for competent teams. Those who stay are the ones who are cool with not having Ownership and doing mostly Orchestration.
While I feel for your general sentiment, I consider the view of "great team versus the evil organisation" somewhat outdated. I've seen teams that could not be less flexible despite being given every opportunity, and middle management that really brought the end-user front and centre.
Plus, the plain truth of it: not every team matters. Any large organisation will have teams that are doing valuable work supporting customers, but are not on the critical path for the current strategy. If you're on that team, your work is valuable and you're valued, but your work is less valuable than the other teams on the critical path. And they should not interrupt their current work to help you.
I'll update the post because that's not the point I am trying to make.
1) The Kraken is evil. The system makes people evil.
2) The people with the most power should change the system. Our leaders.
3) The system will even fight the leaders with guts and try to preserve the status quo
4) In a system with a large kraken, the people you make miserable will leave but those are exactly the people who you need for competent teams. Those who stay are the ones who are cool with not having Ownership and doing mostly Orchestration.