>> An aside but the Director of ML at a company I worked for kept telling us "We need a Graph! We need a Graph!" It depends. Maybe they knew something that the

>> An aside but the Director of ML at a company I worked for kept telling us "We need a Graph! We need a Graph!" It depends. Maybe they knew something that the team didn't but couldn't articulate it. Maybe it would have been great. Alternately (and this seems to be a common tactic unfortunately), is they don't really know what they are doing but use the strategy of introducing a large / time consuming change and promise incredible things once the change is complete. The longer the change takes, the better in this situation as they can just chill while the change is taking place and polish resume for the next gig if it doesn't work out. If they jump to a new job before failure is obvious they can claim that they affected some large change at previous company and repeat the process. The other strategy is to performtatively claim success in the face of failure and move on to the next big thing.