Tl;DR: Management Anti-Patterns are rife in the industry because they appear to solve problems at first glance - and they do work because they reach a local max

Tl;DR: Management Anti-Patterns are rife in the industry because they appear to solve problems at first glance - and they do work because they reach a local maxima. See the six-sigma cults that are little more than cargo cultists running around with checklists.