31st May 2010, 4:48 AM
To be fair I'm certainly not saying all or even most businesses work this way. In fact in this case it wasn't literally organized like that in this company, still, they were calling the shots De Facto.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)