This is not really abnormal for many large companies or government. The c-level peeps are doing ‘stuff’ and the job of layers of management below them is to man

This is not really abnormal for many large companies or government. The c-level peeps are doing ‘stuff’ and the job of layers of management below them is to manage/manipulate them into doing ‘other stuff’. Nothing so weird about it. It goes wrong when the top doesn’t have vision, but Elon does have that.