What Charity Majors thinks about innovation

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab. Co-author of "Database Reliability Engineering" and "Observability Engineering". Writes at charity.wtf about on-call, hierarchy, hiring and the engineer/manager pendulum.

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1. 23 Sept 2022

   Our readingCommand-and-control leadership is poison in any industry that runs on creativity, because it stifles innovation and saps initiative.

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   Their wordsBut if there’s one thing we know, it’s that for industries that are fueled by creativity and innovation, command-and-control leadership is poison.

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