Loads of things that are a good idea don't get done because nobody in a position to actually do them believed they were a good idea and followed through. You c

Loads of things that are a good idea don't get done because nobody in a position to actually do them believed they were a good idea and followed through. You can have pretty astonishing results if you do the work to be sure you're right and then you follow through. A really extreme example that's known to the public would be the "Big Short". Steven Eisman didn't have some secret insider info, he studied the data and he concluded that this short was the correct play. Or consider "Moneyball". There's no reason other baseball teams couldn't use these metrics, it worked, it's used today, but at the time other teams weren't doing it which gave the A's an edge.