My personal experience with large organizations (over 100,000 people) is that everything is so hard because 10-20% of the people do most of the work and the oth

My personal experience with large organizations (over 100,000 people) is that everything is so hard because 10-20% of the people do most of the work and the others are not just minor contributors, but many times just roadblocks. For example 1 hour ago I was discussing with my business counterpart about a project we are working on. We just got approval to hire 4 more people (that means we have to hire them, it is not optional) and half of them are diversity targets (meaning: skills are irelevant, we will get them anyway) and the other 2 will be hired and given to us without knowing what are the skills we need. Based on such organization dynamics, we plan to be sufficient without these 4 people and if any of them has any useful skills, it will be a nice surprise. At the same time, we need to give them some work to do, so we need to invent some roles that should be as harmless as possible. This is just a project, in my department of ~100 people about half are just mouth breathing, but it makes it a lot more complicated for the ~ 20-30 that do work to just do their work: some of these people have invented roles to rubber stamp steps in the projects, so they are adding 10-20 steps and a few days of work just to justify their existence. With the department half the size, everything would be much simpler, faster and even more productive.