Exercise 2: Why Projects Survive an Employee Leaving — Possible Solution ==================================================================== Google's own real, documented organizational principle is explicit: resources don't belong to the individual employee who created them - they belong to the Organization itself. A Project's own real ownership was never actually tied to any single person's account in the first place, even though that person may have been the one who originally created it. Because of this real design choice, when an employee who created several Projects leaves the company, those Projects and everything inside them remain genuinely intact and under the Organization's own continued ownership - there's no dependency on that specific individual's own account remaining active for the Projects to keep functioning or for administrators to retain access to them. ANSWER: These Projects aren't at risk of being lost or orphaned because GCP's real hierarchy was deliberately designed so that Projects belong to the Organization, not to the individual who created them - the departing employee's own account being disabled or removed has no real bearing on the Project's own continued existence, ownership, or accessibility to other authorized administrators within the Organization. WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ This correctly cites the chapter's own explicit, real documented principle as the reason, rather than assuming Projects would somehow "just work out," and explains the real, practical consequence (continuity through personnel changes) the principle was specifically designed to guarantee.