80% of soldiers at the Battle of the Bulge never fired their weapons. 80% of your Slack workspace has never shipped anything. Marshall called it diffusion of responsibility. We seem committed to calling it "culture."

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/collaboration-is-bullshit/

"Collaboration" is bullshit.

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"If and when it exists, ownership looks like an individual who deeply gives a shit, making a call without waiting for group-consensus. That individual will be right sometimes, and they’ll be wrong other times, and they’ll own it. They won’t sit around waiting to find out who has the authority to move a card from one column to another and post about it in the #celebrations channel."

I feel the last sentence in my bones.