The idea of low friction and similar environments and someone being productive always trigger me a little. In the sense that I think MANY people get a lot of things done in a low friction environment... BECAUSE it is a low friction environment. And once you have a few people who have to deal with the results that come out of nowhere, that other person is the friction for everyone else.
I've worked a lot of places where there's that special someone who gets to cowboy everything because they're "really good" and of course they look really good, because the rules or structure don't apply to them and they can move faster than anyone else by design. It's a never ending cycle.
Meanwhile everyone else or people who come later have to deal with everything the special someone did / didn't think of and so on.
I don't disagree with the premise, but there's consequences and a sort of inescapable feedback loop sometimes too.
I've worked a lot of places where there's that special someone who gets to cowboy everything because they're "really good" and of course they look really good, because the rules or structure don't apply to them and they can move faster than anyone else by design. It's a never ending cycle.
Meanwhile everyone else or people who come later have to deal with everything the special someone did / didn't think of and so on.
I don't disagree with the premise, but there's consequences and a sort of inescapable feedback loop sometimes too.