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This happens on an organizational scale as well.

Once a company grows beyond a certain point it no longer needs to keep a razor focus on the core business, and a disproportionate amount of effort gets redirected to creating sometimes useful but often completely pointless and gratuitous internal tools. That way every middle manager gets to justify an ever growing number of reports and make his mark in the organization.




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