This video focuses on the video game industry. If you were looking for an insightful discussion of low performing execs in general, this isn't it. I wouldn't

This video focuses on the video game industry. If you were looking for an insightful discussion of low performing execs in general, this isn't it. I wouldn't even describe these decisions as poor. If you want high quality anything, you need to pare down the set of people who make decisions about it to a very small number. That's how all these great games were made. I believe the Elder Scrolls franchise has a single "loremaster", and as a result the lore is good. If you want the story to be good, one person has to have the final say on the plot, etc. That's not what a large corporation is trying to do. Large corporations are trying to ensure that a known good approach isn't strayed far from (prevent screw-ups and ensure mediocrity at the expense of innovation). The recipe is boring and well understood: require many people for every decision, ensure that processes are designed for a representative low performer, ensure no one's strengths are relied upon so they can be easily replaced. This is what has produced the same Call of Duty with better graphics and more weapons every year for the last decade. It's a recipe that works. Eventually it won't, it will get old, and innovation will be required. A corporation can't do that (innovate), so it will have to shut down the project or risk going under.