Competition Without Rules Is Destructive
When your team has to choose which technical decision to make, who has the final say? When one of your colleagues asks for a raise, who decides, and what is his or her decision based on? When it's necessary to work overtime, how is it decided who will stay in the office? I'm expecting you to shrug your shoulders. You're right, these questions never have explicit answers in modern organizations. We are used to working in a more "democratic" way, where such decisions are made subjectively by managers or more senior employees. Is this how it should be?