The answer can be both. There are times when deadlines are fixed, the path is known, and everyone just needs to march in the same direction. There are other tim

The answer can be both. There are times when deadlines are fixed, the path is known, and everyone just needs to march in the same direction. There are other times when a company faces an existential threat from a new technology. This is when having your best minds “messing around” can be hugely beneficial. For example, pivoting your photograph company to a makeup company is not intuitive to me, and is an idea that could have come from someone screwing around in a lab. It is also a tome of huge pressure, and managing that dichotomy is what good managers do