Constructive Nonconformity

Behavior that deviates from organizational norms, others’ actions, or common expectations, to the benefit of the organization. | Francesca Gino

I recently stumbled upon a post by Fiona Tribe, Poetry at the water cooler, where she writes,

To express pro-system sentiment publicly, and anti-system sentiment privately, is not to be inauthentic, but to make a strategic choice from the limited discourses you have available to you in a certain place, at a certain time.

We are constrained by the system w…