What’s left unsaid is that not just the CEO, but every manager down the line has made it clear that it’s okay to toss the blame down the line. Every individual

What’s left unsaid is that not just the CEO, but every manager down the line has made it clear that it’s okay to toss the blame down the line. Every individual contributor in that company has just learned that they need to cover their ass for any action that could possibly go wrong. The cultural outcome is that accountabilities will be spread across managers so that blame can’t be assigned to an individual.