[PaulHoule]

Not magically.

I used to put down the leaders of big businesses for the various screw-ups you read in the news, such as the 2008 financial crisis, Carly Fioria destroying Bell Labs and nearly destroying HP, the recent meltdown at GE, the 737 MAX scandal, etc.

Over time I realized that incredible screw-ups happen all the time at small businesses (say a small-town general store) or medium businesses (say a venture-funded startup) If the people who ran big companies screwed up as often as the people who run big companies, we wouldn't have any big companies!

You might not need a 10x salesman to be a 10x developer, but the failure of any part of the value chain can multiply the value of your work by zero!

There probably is some way to measure the pathology that I mention, but it's not going to be superficial or "magic".