The over-bureaucracy is also a sign of a bad culture. The reason you need that level of micro-management is because people are already not doing their jobs. Rather than taking corrective action on poor performers, you end up having to manage bad performers. But if you have bad managers, then you need to have managers manage the managers to manage the bad performers.
Worse, when bureaucracy gets bad, people start cheating the system to make it faster, which means you've *created corruption.
Suddenly, you've got a positive feed-back loop that's spiraling out of control. You're using managers to tackle corruption in other managers, who are corrupt to increase the speed of the system, so some people are just getting away with it, so the rules aren't being followed or enforced properly, and everyone's stepping on each others toes, and no one's getting anything done.
No wonder he tried getting out of buying the company. He must have taken one look at this shit and gone "holy fucking shit, this place is about to fucking implode".
He didn't just buy a crime scene, he bought a crime scene that was an actively burning building. The bot problem was not even 10% of the severity of problems Twitter had.
The over-bureaucracy is also a sign of a bad culture. The reason you need that level of micro-management is because people are already not doing their jobs. Rather than taking corrective action on poor performers, you end up having to manage bad performers. But if you have bad managers, then you need to have managers manage the managers to manage the bad performers.
Worse, when bureaucracy gets bad, people start cheating the system to make it faster, which means you've *created corruption.
Suddenly, you've got a positive feed-back loop that's spiraling out of control. You're using managers to tackle corruption in other managers, who are corrupt to increase the speed of the system, so some people are just getting away with it, so the rules aren't being followed or enforced properly, and everyone's stepping on each others toes, and no one's getting anything done.
No wonder he tried getting out of buying the company. He must have taken one look at this shit and gone "holy fucking shit, this place is about to fucking implode".
He didn't just buy a crime scene, he bought a crime scene that was an actively burning building. The bot problem was not even 10% of the severity of problems Twitter had.