There are several good examples in adjacent-comments, each company suffering from the same common deathknell of becoming largest in its field of similarly over-

There are several good examples in adjacent-comments, each company suffering from the same common deathknell of becoming largest in its field of similarly over-cumbersome organizations. Failure to steer the ship as it becomes too top-heavy (e.g. kill R&D immediately; outsource all the things). To echo [1] the Xerox example, the C-suite became entirely made-up of former salesmen who'd become addicted to the pavlovian `click`ing sound their massive copiers made in bill-per-page leases... which blinded them from realizing the digitizing world wasn't going to favor their no-risk-taking approach. `click` - `click` - `click` – late 60's ASMR erotica for Xerox VPs. [1] amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer-ebook/dp/B0029PBVCA