At modest size this is a self solving problem because companies full of cupcake makers and eaters simply go out of business. Boeing spent many years being led b

At modest size this is a self solving problem because companies full of cupcake makers and eaters simply go out of business. Boeing spent many years being led by the kind of folks who were motivated by the success of the company successfully and the wheels fell off—now literally—when it was lead by folks interested in short term profitability. People have an inherent need to be useful to matter. Mr cupcake decided to matter by making friends with food but if his performance was objectively that bad it should be fairly easy to set performance goals of some kind and term him when he doesn't meet them. This seems to be how a lot of functional places work best. Motivated people working together with relatively soft guidelines that turn into hard limits to get rid of dead weight.