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by musingsole 1441 days ago
> I think she's wrong: She could do this.

You can be handed a functional institution, but unless you know how to keep it together, you'll just run it into the ground eventually.

If you accept that the institution-people aren't actually working but building brands and selling their brands, then it follows that it is a different set of skills to do the work than it is to represent it.