What does “the powers that be have to mean it for the work to matter” mean? Why does TSA keep saying “Stop, run!”?

What are Jeff Atwood’s reflections on the Freedom

of Everything in Life that Matter for the Power of God? Mostly it means providing employees the unfettered freedom to fail miserably at their skunkworks projects, sans repercussions or judgement. Without failures, there will never be progress, without experimentation. What is there in learning from failure as an individual?


In the sense that the powers that

  • be, have to really mean it when it as for the work to matter
  • sans repercussion or judgement

I found that “the powers that be” seems to be an idiom.

If there isn’t

a healthy respect for individual experimentation versus the neverending pursuit of the Next Thing on the collective project task list, these initiatives are destined to fail. When you have to truly believe, as a company, and as peers, that crucial innovations and improvements can come from everyone at the company at any time, in bottom-up fashion – they aren’t delivered from on high at scheduled release intervals in the almighty Master Plan.

When asked about the issues of

  • master plan they aren’t delivered from on high from scheduled release intervals. How could that be?

Wow, studying English, there’s a long way to me.

Asked on December 24, 2021 in Meaning.
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Is there any way of determining who’s in charge of your life? Of course you will see them in more or less frantic ways, like calling them the Management.

The other three words should be in the dictionary: sans, repercussion, judg(e)ment.

Answered on December 24, 2021.
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When given the freedom to “work on whatever you want” First, the powers that be have to

really mean it (they have to really be serious about the idea that there really is freedom to “work what you want” ) for the work to matter (or else the employee doesn’t truly feel that his work is meaningful) “sans repercussion or judgment” (without negative

consequences or undue criticism) “they aren’t delivered from on high

at scheduled release intervals in the almighty Master Plan. Good ideas don’t come down from “on high” (as in the Ten Commandments coming down from God) at scheduled release intervals… The
message here is that innovation and good ideas are organic, they come by degrees from many people, they don’t come on a set schedule or because management deemed it so.

Answered on December 24, 2021.
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Does “have to really mean it for the work to matter”. In other words Good work and Innovation never really matter unless management make it so. a lot of workplaces still, even though on the face of it they (management) pretend to have empowered the workforce through initiatives. this is the reality of

a lot of workplaces still.

Answered on December 24, 2021.
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Is there any way of determining who’s in charge of your life? Of course you will see them in more or less frantic ways, like calling them the Management.

The other three words should be in the dictionary: sans, repercussion, judg(e)ment.

Answered on December 24, 2021.
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Does “have to really mean it for the work to matter”. In other words Good work and Innovation never really matter unless management make it so. a lot of workplaces still, even though on the face of it they (management) pretend to have empowered the workforce through initiatives. this is the reality of

a lot of workplaces still.

Answered on December 24, 2021.
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Does “have to really mean it for the work to matter”. In other words Good work and Innovation never really matter unless management make it so. a lot of workplaces still, even though on the face of it they (management) pretend to have empowered the workforce through initiatives. this is the reality of

a lot of workplaces still.

Answered on December 24, 2021.
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Does “have to really mean it for the work to matter”. In other words Good work and Innovation never really matter unless management make it so. a lot of workplaces still, even though on the face of it they (management) pretend to have empowered the workforce through initiatives. this is the reality of

a lot of workplaces still.

Answered on December 24, 2021.
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Is there any way of determining who’s in charge of your life? Of course you will see them in more or less frantic ways, like calling them the Management.

The other three words should be in the dictionary: sans, repercussion, judg(e)ment.

Answered on December 24, 2021.
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Does “have to really mean it for the work to matter”. In other words Good work and Innovation never really matter unless management make it so. a lot of workplaces still, even though on the face of it they (management) pretend to have empowered the workforce through initiatives. this is the reality of

a lot of workplaces still.

Answered on December 24, 2021.
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Does “have to really mean it for the work to matter”. In other words Good work and Innovation never really matter unless management make it so. a lot of workplaces still, even though on the face of it they (management) pretend to have empowered the workforce through initiatives. this is the reality of

a lot of workplaces still.

Answered on December 24, 2021.
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