It's fundamentally a legibility problem. Organizational incentives are all structured around what managers and executives can understand, and anything outside t

It's fundamentally a legibility problem. Organizational incentives are all structured around what managers and executives can understand, and anything outside that scope is assumed to have negligible value. Or to phrase it in a slightly bitter manner, the people in charge are mere humans like us with limited field of view, and the fact that they think they can capture everything in an MBA paradigm is a mismatch which generates avoidable inefficiency.