"Work" is not measured in hours or effort put in. If it were, it'd be absurd for CEO's to get paid as much as they do. Instead, "work" is measured exclusively

"Work" is not measured in hours or effort put in. If it were, it'd be absurd for CEO's to get paid as much as they do. Instead, "work" is measured exclusively by output. How much happier is the customer now that you've done your work? How much of that happiness translated into an actual transfer of resources from the customer to the company? Seen through this lens, it's obvious that a couple of smart decisions at the top can easily outweigh years of grunt work by thousands of employees. Now it's just a question of getting the best decision makers and leaders into the top positions so as to maximize overall value creation. But that's much, much easier said than done.