> Who exactly is the target audience of this article? If I had to guess, it would probably be most useful for those companies that have not yet reached the sta

> Who exactly is the target audience of this article? If I had to guess, it would probably be most useful for those companies that have not yet reached the stage where they can serve as the venue for the executive-musical-chairs stage of management you describe. My assumption is that when the company is small enough, that which "makes me look the best" and that which "is in the long term interests of the company" are probably mostly aligned due to the higher visibility of those early executives and managers. Not that this stops the ladder-climbers, of course - it's just more obvious when they personally contribute to wrecking a company if the company is small, which presumably the personal-brand-conscious executive would try to avoid. > Eating up all available slack is one of the more mundane ways to cannibalize the company for your own benefit. Otherwise known as "maximizing shareholder value."