HF, as I've been saying for a while, my perception is that management is trying to compensate for post-2001 by doing the polar opposite. That is, "if it ain't broke..." (which is of course one of the dumbest axioms in the world).
But it's more than that... it's more like "it worked, so we better seal it in plaster." This team has been preaching BS for a while... chemistry over production, scrappiness over goodness, internal options instead of far better external options because they've come up in the organization, etc. By more or less walking ass-backwards into a competitive team, they're saying "see, we were right" whereas they should be saying "thank God, now let's keep it rolling."
I had a management professor I was fond of... my favorite saying of his was "organizational inertia is the most powerful force known to man." Sadly true.
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