Consider, just for a moment, the sheer number of people involved in getting a new car from drawing board to the road. Engineers, designers, accountants, technicians: hundreds of lavishly qualified, lavishly skilled humans, doubtless educated at the globe’s finest institutions, bringing literally centuries of combined experience to the table.
Consider, as that new car makes its slow journey to production, how many meetings must take place to ensure that what’s being created is a fine, desirable, competent motor vehicle, and not, for example, a gurning, wallowing abomination of an SUV bearing the face of a beaver deeply shamed by his new moustache. Consider how many opportunities exist for any one of those qualified, talented employees to say, “Um, hang on a second guys. Is it possible we’re making an utter…
