Why companies stop innovating
<p>Recently, a friend sent me <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/23573432/tech-layoffs-cuts-startup-facebook-google-amazon" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">an article about how leaders within big tech were trying to recapture the early startup spirit</a>. It included trigger phrases for me like “being scrappy” and “be like a startup” and, to me, is a symptom of lack of innovation rather than a way of cultivating it. This got me thinking about how you create an environment where innovation happens and, more to the point, how that culture dies out over time.</p>
<p>The slow entropy towards bureaucracy is not unique to big tech. This is something experienced by all big companies or organisations at one time or another. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Kranz" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Gene Kranz</a> (formerly leader of White Flight in NASA Mission Control during the Apollo 13 mission) was asked this about how the culture had changed within NASA since his time and his response could be about what is happening in big tech right now:</p>
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