At some point in time, every organization realizes that it’s slowing down. Features take longer to ship, folks spend more and more time in meetings, and everyone gets panicky about estimation and planning. If we’ve internalized essentialist bullshit about “B players hiring C players”, maybe we get nervous about The Bar and hiring. If we’re anxious and uncertain, we might get religion about Agile or Scrum or whatever. If we’re prone to modernist flights of fancy, we might decide to spend our innovation tokens trying to disrupt the 200,000 year old industry of getting humans to work together. If we’re the type to do our eight and hit the gate, we chalk it up as the price of success.

These approaches rarely yield results.