Like technical debt, management debt is incurred when you make an expedient, short-term management decision with an expensive, long-term consequence. - Ben Horowitz

move with precision and follow his exact plan; there was no room for individual creativity outside the core mission.

there’s no recipe for motivating teams when your business has turned to crap.

Companies execute well when everybody is on the same page and everybody is constantly improving. In a vacuum of feedback, there is almost no chance that your company will perform optimally across either dimension. Directions with no corrections will seem fuzzy and obtuse. People rarely improve weakness they are unaware of. The ultimate price you will pay for not giving feedback: systematically crappy company performance.