> But now they are different. Most big companies aren’t focused on creating things out of nothing. Someone else made the magic money-making machine, and they as

> But now they are different. Most big companies aren’t focused on creating things out of nothing. Someone else made the magic money-making machine, and they assume that it will just keep working. With the one thing that actually matters taken care of, they care about luxuries like making sure as high a percentage of the company as possible feels included in the planning process. Or creating performance review frameworks with an ever-increasing number of boxes and categories. Or something else that matters even less than that. This lack of focus is a luxury and a disease. Absolutely brilliant paragraph, couldn't have said it better. I wonder if this is some function of "idle hands do the devil's work": that is, people with not enough work to do find some moderately useless thing to do that feels like work and seems like work but is actually wasting time or even counterproductive. Perhaps a properly lean company always has a bit more work to do than it has the capacity to do it.