Why does this happen? I see it happening over and over in different companies. Does any shareholder ever go, "Stop. This sounds familiar. Let's avoid the most common outcome here and reinstate the engineers."

If so, what conditions makes that succeed, and what obstacles usually prevent it?

> The isolation was deliberate. “When the headquarters is located in proximity to a principal business—as ours was in Seattle—the corporate center is inevitably drawn into day-to-day business operations,” Condit explained at the time

I'm wondering what "management principle" this is? Is it from a book or an MBA course? It seems (to me anyway) the opposite of good practice.

https://archive.is/q5pQV

Predictable based on a large body of knowledge. From Orson Scott Card's How Software Companies Die to David Packards HP Way. There's also Deming, Goldratt, and Jim Collins.

https://medium.com/riow/how-software-companies-die-by-orson-...

https://fs.blog/the-hp-way-david-packard/

Reading this, I'm hoping Intel are getting on the right track. Seems they're doing just that so far.