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> No incentive meant no action taken.

sounds like late stage capitalism

Sounds like simple poor management to me. If you're going to do R&D work or invent something you hope to be able to sell, you have to accept that value may not be realized immediately and there may be some paths explored that don't end up leading to anything.

If you're going to sell T shirts, then sure, have quarterly goals.

> If you're going to sell T shirts, then sure, have quarterly goals.

The issue provided in the example is about helping other teams out without an expectation of a reward, not about short term vs long term gains.

Yep. Fundamentally, tech R&D requires management that will be ok with trial and error, and ambiguous timelines.

The predictable unit production/sales way of management works for duplicatable, repeatable goods.

> sounds like late stage capitalism

Yes. Because with socialism and communism the management cares about everyone’s benefits and not their own skin?

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