Mutually Assured Mediocrity | Stay SaaSy

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Mutually Assured Mediocrity | Stay SaaSy © 2026. Stay SaaSy. 17 Feb 2025 • saas Maybe the worst state for a company to get in is what I call Mutually Assured Mediocrity. This is where people are so holistically mid that they agree not to criticize each other for fear of their own mediocrity being found out. And what’s worse is that leaders on top of MAM organizations are by default mediocre, and most of their signal on performance comes from peers complaining about each other (which doesn’t happen), so they think bad results are just acts of god instead of the obvious outcomes from m

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