IME, if you get enough people together someone is going to abuse the system. If it's an exception, then making a rule is the wrong play. Now again IME, if it's

IME, if you get enough people together someone is going to abuse the system. If it's an exception, then making a rule is the wrong play. Now again IME, if it's the culture across the board, then that's a leadership problem and likely an organization with no direction. As an outsider looking in, I know Paul Otellini got a lot of good press for his time at Intel even though he passed on making chips for the iPhone and missed mobile completely. So I can't say if Intel during that period fits with my statements above.