Why Success Is Often Elusive at the Highest Echelons

> This is especially true at the highest echelons of engineering — it’s a sine qua non to be able to dream and execute.

Nice quote. There's something very ideal about figuring out where opportunities really are, what can be done. While making the machine function well getting there. Knowing that there's got to be synergy rings true, if you want real effecacy.

My biggest counter belief is that execs are often kinda useless because there are often few actually high magnitude directions to head. The success of many products is, in my feelings, as much arbitrary as it is anything a company does. We can add up very small things for or against us, but there's a corporate grandiosity & self-regard that has an immeasurably higher view of itself & it's prowess. But usually the die is already fairly cast, we are what we are, working in incremental modes, & it's more fate & cirumstance affecting us than the lines of power at the top.

People who get teleported in may simply be met with sullen foot-dragging from the existing mediocrities incentivized to make the new guy fail.