[mieko]

> keen to find out who was responsible at the lowest level

It's funny how profit flows up, but legal responsibility trickles down.

[bell-cot]

There are some old stereotypes of detail-obsessed Germans - far too busy measuring the growth rings of a tree with micrometers, and wondering why those are so close together - but never noticing that the tree is small, and growing in a well-shaded part of a large forest.

[egberts1]

The absolute worse case of "not seeing the forest for the tree".