Sorry, in no way criticising your english. Was meant to be a cynical comment on the number people one sees simply failing upwards. Success has many parents, fa

Sorry, in no way criticising your english. Was meant to be a cynical comment on the number people one sees simply failing upwards. Success has many parents, failure is an orphan. Merit at playing political games, backstabbing, lying, appearing plausible and convincing, looking like the kind of person expected at that time. Talent, ability, hard work, placing the common goal first? Vastly less important. Aligning self-interest with a common goal is very much an unsolved problem. Being slightly less bad is amazing. One of the most powerful facets of the visionary founder ceo owner despite most being such epic idiots is they aren't professional managers looking to cut themselves into inter-generational levels of wealth from their employer, whether they have MBAs from Harvard like G.W.Bush or not. Structure based on on meritocracy is indeed, as you say, theory. Or justification. Or rationalisation.