"What principles survive bureaucratization?"
From a conversation with ; a principle can sound good, eg "people not projects" for science funding, but scaling it may destroy its power.
It's sometimes the difference between Michelin 2 stars and McDonald's food....
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To your last comment: we should be especially impressed by restauranteurs who achieve that kind of multi-star level, and then scale to 10+ places with a superlative quality bar. Robuchon, Ducasse… hard to think of many. Andres, maybe?
Blue Bottle is impressive along this axis.