united by a Performance Cycle

I hear much of what happens there is from PMs who want promotions, which makes me wonder if a goal (like interorg alignment) could be met by freezing their promotions until they Google Meet together & hash it out.

I’m reducing into silliness I’m sure, I don’t have any breadth or depth of knowledge here.

Edit: wonder why Apple is ostensibly different. MS seems similar, and don’t know enough about AWS—maybe I’ve seen complaints about them being disjointed, but not as much as Google & Microsoft.

>they are better thought of as a "loose federation of warring tribes".

Googly way to put it! Nice. Might steal that :)