Well all the people at the top were machiavellian bastards on their rise. But they need underlings to not be machiavellian to get the best operating business an

Well all the people at the top were machiavellian bastards on their rise. But they need underlings to not be machiavellian to get the best operating business and stock performance. So they need to be visibly watched. Of course ascending the hierarchy means visibly larger and larger numbers of underlings. Zoom phantoms don't count in that swinging duck contest.