You're absolutely right, and that's the reason large companies end up being so inefficient. Eventually, some nimble whippersnapping startup who only hires "A p

You're absolutely right, and that's the reason large companies end up being so inefficient. Eventually, some nimble whippersnapping startup who only hires "A players" eats the large enterprise's breakfast. But to satisfy the shareholders, the startup takes on more work and to cope with that work, they start hiring B players... and so it goes on the enterprise merrygoround. There's no real solution, just different ways of playing the game.