It has been the case with most companies I have consulted with, as a management consultant that this is rarely the case. The CEO and his favorite executives an

It has been the case with most companies I have consulted with, as a management consultant that this is rarely the case. The CEO and his favorite executives and VPs salesmen live inside their own little bubble with little real knowledge of the problems and challenges that the company is facing internally. This is why I made good money. It is easy to see this when management sends out decrees on how to improve performance or throughput .. etc that does not contain any mention of, nor solutions to the problems that is keeping the performance / throughput /(or whatever fitting metrics are for the company) I might have a bias in that I have mostly worked with companies that hired us to help them. It is possible that the pool I have been exposed to is different than the majority but I do not think so. I know of companies that are run in a more sane way but they are usually smaller, at least in number of employees and thus leadership is more aware of how things work.