>This essay asks the question, why are larger organizations so bad at performing feats of brilliance most of the time?
I'm not sure I buy this premise: Menlo Park, Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, IBM Research, major universities, the US military/government. Giant organizations like these provided enormous innovation and discovery in the last century. Maybe they don't anymore, but the question of why isn't the same as proclaiming "larger organizations [are] so bad at performing feats of brilliance most of the time".
"giant" != "brilliant", and the question why something is the case does imply the statement that it is the case. You say you don't buy the premise, but then say that maybe it's true.
I'm not sure I buy this premise: Menlo Park, Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, IBM Research, major universities, the US military/government. Giant organizations like these provided enormous innovation and discovery in the last century. Maybe they don't anymore, but the question of why isn't the same as proclaiming "larger organizations [are] so bad at performing feats of brilliance most of the time".