This sounds like the age-old balance between maintenance/repair and breaking-new-ground/innovation. My personal sense is that there is and always has been a gen

This sounds like the age-old balance between maintenance/repair and breaking-new-ground/innovation. My personal sense is that there is and always has been a gendered dimension to striking this balance, and varying levels of predisposition that bellcurve along gender-specific neurotypes. For me, once I was pointed to this axis, I started recognizing it everywhere -- legal institutions, the way companies are run, etc etc Hofstede's cultural dimension studies commissioned by IBM in the 50s (?) have things to say about this too