Companies want to make money by making products. Workers want stable jobs, higher salaries, meaningful work, and respect. In the typical company, sloppy leadership exacerbates this division to such a degree that workers concentrate on turf building, ladder climbing, and fighting the system to the neglect of making products. Because of a mistaken belief in their own expertise. A company in a market is a complex organism in an even more complex ecosystem in which changes have unpredictable repercussions.
Nobody can guess right except a rare few savants and some lucky lottery winners.
Nevertheless, company executives are expected to have the answers, so they apply techniques that supposedly work for the savants. This is like the average chess player, who in trying to foresee ten moves ahead, as the masters do, misses the fact that his queen will be lost on the next turn. Executives get so caught up in the latest management fad for fine-tuning an organization, that they lose track of more fundamental goals. Everything one level removed from these is a dangerous distraction. If company leaders keep things simple and stick to these goals, then at least the company won't make beginner's blunders.