Well, creating a common vision would have been a good start, as would having had a single owner. There is a point where it becomes more valuable for managers t

Well, creating a common vision would have been a good start, as would having had a single owner. There is a point where it becomes more valuable for managers to delegate and step away than it is for them to try and keep abreast of the minutiae. In order for delegation to work there must be comprehensive trust. In my experience, large organizations usually fail miserably at this combination of trust, vision, and delegation [at some point of scaling]. The better you are the better you can scale, but even revered learning organizations like 3M, Bell Labs, and Xerox PARC relied [mostly] on small, self-organizing organic project teams with very little management oversight... but oodles of charisma & responsibility.