In an era of massive scale companies and giant projects, it's fascinating how often it feels like most of the success of a project or company's big successes ultimately hinge on the actions of a few key individuals in the right place at the right time - and it never fails to surprise me how little overlap these individuals and the actual actual company org charts share.

Org charts are structured around running the company day to day. The surprising one-off big boosts from an individual are by definition not reflected in an org chart.

"The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world."

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