One thing I've noticed repeatedly is that counter to the old adage "Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan", the opposite is almost always true. At ever

One thing I've noticed repeatedly is that counter to the old adage "Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan", the opposite is almost always true. At every successful company I've worked at there's been probably 1 thing that drives the success, and a thousand things that hinder the success. But just that one thing driving success can overcome the thousand hinderances. It's because that one nugget of success is so strong, you can afford to fail in lots of other ways. The core driving success of a large company almost always spawns a load of other problems which would sink any smaller company, but it survives because the good outweighs the bad, and when the good is massive, the bad can be pretty enormous too. The problem is, it's often almost impossible to really know what's driving th success. And by hacking away at the problems you can endanger the unique combination of things that drives success.