Agreed. He&#x27;s describing an organization where the leaders are not actually interested in doing a good job. An organization that&#x27;s not a true meritocracy. An organization where actually playing the game is more important than doing a good job.<p>Heartbreaking as it is, that describes most large organizations, and most small ones too.  If you work at a place where the leadership supports you and truly wants you to do a good job, where the best people get promoted regardless of whether they&#x27;re &quot;playing the game&quot; then you have found a rare place indeed!<p>I think that our education system was trying to teach me this all along, and I failed to learn it until I was in my 40s.