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Increasing technical ability of the group increases coherency. Planning for the future is easier. Either hire higher or drop the dead weight. But if what the group needs is to be compelling, then this increased coherency makes the problem worse.

the "problem" here isn't that the team isn't "growing". The story isn't going anywhere. There's no room for "growth" "I'm a firefighter, I fight fires." isn't a growth story b/c each new fire is just the new villain of the week.

This is a *critical* story but still... from a plot perspective, this only works for childish plots like that for power rangers. "I'm a firefighter, I fight fires but one day want to be a VC." on the other hand is "moving up in the world"

All companies are part of a growth story due to expectations from shareholders. Tech companies often have a lot of growth expectations so have to generate a lot of "compelling" even at the cost of "coherency" (Theranos/Magic Leap)

Other companies still need to grow as well, but the growth expectations are smaller. The story doesn't have to have 100 twists that logically resolve and win as a horror/drama/comedy/romance hybrid.

This can be visualized like the train "Snowpiercer". The "world" has to move. If it stops it dies.

Each company has a bunch of people betting on it to reach certain milestones at certain times. If the expectations are met, the story feels coherent (ppl inside the company are happy), otherwise the entire system is "whipped" to urge it to go faster.

The whipping urges the company to strive for a more powerful story which in turn requires each sub-system to cascade forwards its individual stories. This naturally incentivizes critical functions to minimize to a bare minimum. this is going "lean" for max acceleration.