> most executives are just cargo culting based on what their predecessors did. It's underappreciated the extent to which the average business is simply mirror

> most executives are just cargo culting based on what their predecessors did. It's underappreciated the extent to which the average business is simply mirroring the practices which were common previously. The golden ticket outside of digital for the last ~50 years in American business has been cost cutting. This meant squeezing employees, making larger businesses with theoretically better economies of scale, and increased outsourcing.