...b-b-but "Lean In"

It's funny that bureaucracies everywhere -- doesn't matter if it's Prussia, the USSR, the Pentagon, or a US tech company -- display these same characteristics at the management level.

The pipe-fitters are constantly screamed at to fit pipes, but somehow never rise to the top despite having correctly fitted 100,000 pipes. It's almost like there's an inherent logic to the thing from which the pipe-fitters are excluded, despite their skill at fitting pipes, which is the nominal business of the enterprise.