The managers and analysts that you are labelling as incompetent may be not incompetent. It will be naivety to say that those people are just sitting and playing

The managers and analysts that you are labelling as incompetent may be not incompetent. It will be naivety to say that those people are just sitting and playing video games for hours at work. Have you delved into their past careers/performances etc? What you are seeing is just tip of iceberg and if you are not aware of that then all your prediction and calculation can go wrong. I agree some managers and directors can be clueless as in large companies there are frequent shuffles among departments and projects but that can't be their fault in entirety. If it is a large ship then there will be some people who can relax and still the ship will move with few other's contributions. Large organizations are like that. Do not expect all employees to contribute evenly and that is 8 hours of diligent work. That does not happen. I guess not even in at G or Y or A or F. But if you are in a canoe(startup) with one or two other guys then you have to paddle.