If you try to run a modern enterprise from the top, nobody will understand it by the time a question gets to the top, and by the time the answer comes down, it will usually be too late an d the wrong answer. World War III, the Cold War, is over. But a new conflict, World War IV has already started. The nature of conflict among developed nations has fundamentally changed. Weapons War between highly developed countries is technically obsolete.
Nuclear power is no longer the basis for claiming super-power status.
The chief conflict of the next decade, World War IV, is economic. The new measure of super-power status will be the level of material prosperity provided to the population. Weapons use will be limited t o policing the globe against regional fanatics. The contest of coming decades will be among competing economic variants of enabling individual creativity and productivity. This is the best hope for improving a national economy.