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A professional crew team enters a prestigious international race and comes in second place, losing by just a foot. Noting the team’s success, they’re purchased by a prestigious corporate firm looking to take advantage of their success.

On day one of the new ownership, the upper management comes in a with a series of solutions that they believe will finally give the crew team the additional foot it needs. At the core of their suggestions is reconsidering having eight rowers with one person steering. With better management, the executives insist, they’ll be able to get better results.

The next year, the team enters with its new structure: one person steering, a regional performance manager to “empower the staff to meet their full potential,” two steering managers (one for left turns and the other for right turns), four vice presidents of boating operations, and then a single individual rowing.

The results of the race were... 

When the crew came in last place, failing to even finish the race, upper management took action to correct the trend. The rower was immediately fired for poor performance and cited the primary reason for the failure to do what they had accomplished last year. The managers promoted the manager of left turn to the new senior VP of boating operations, sold off the oars to “streamline” boating operations, and then used that money to pay performance bonuses to senior executives.