I think the dead weight is a given, in either circumstance. It's not about motivating them, that's a sunk cost. It's more about making the 90% of folks that a

I think the dead weight is a given, in either circumstance. It's not about motivating them, that's a sunk cost. It's more about making the 90% of folks that aren't dead weight not suffer under the burden of the stuff OP mentions that overtakes day to day life as organizations get bigger. That's the issue.