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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not OP but I think some people are missing the gist of what OP is trying to say.  It’s not about being allowed to be an oddball or being quirky or being disagreeable.

It’s more macro. Maybe the entire premise of the companies product line is flawed, or your company acquired another and it’s a complete dog and dragging your company down the drain, or you pretend your product is actually good for people when it’s not.  And no one can actually say these macro things out loud.   You have to pretend to celebrate someone hitting a sales goal when the entire company is on a slow death march, or sit in product roadmap meetings to a product that users don’t actually use or pretend that it’s cool that the company keeps making money hand over fist when you recognize from the inside that it’s a monopoly.  A lot of corporate America is like this.   Think: big tech, insurance companies, healthcare, oil and gas.

Everyone keeps up the facade for the paycheck or the status. Many of them believe the lie they are telling to themselves about what their jobs or their companies actually do.

If you have been in senior roles in corporate America for multiple decades this is what it’s like - not everywhere but most.  [/quote]

I’been in senior roles at F 500. If and when it gets to the point where you are operating under false pretenses more often than not, it’s time to get out. Before that though, as I rose in corporations, I learned that my view of a thing may not be the only view or the right view of a thing. For example, an acquisition’s product line may be a quality assurance nightmare, but leadership didn’t buy the company for that product. They bought it for the IP. Or the talent that would take another 20 months to build the team, and the product is being dropped eventually, in the meantime we need to complete the integration. Or another example, we are going to buy an entire business and pay a guzzillion bucks in legal fees but the long term ROI is that it get us into the Cyber market fast. In the meantime the Legal team is burning the midnight oil.  I could come up with a few other examples, but that’s all to say, there are layers to every business transaction, approach, viewpoint, angle, etc and you may not know them outright, but you could if you asked more questions, and definitely you need to start understanding the nuances of business as you keep rising in your career There is a macro to your definition of macro.

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