Our rowing team lost a competition to a foreign team and sought to improve for the next year. An analysis found that our team had 7 captains and only 1 rower, while the other team had 7 rowers and 1 captain. We hired a consultant who recommended restructuring our team to have fewer captains and more rowers. The next year we lost again by an even greater margin, so the rower was fired and managers were rewarded while consultants analyzed that our strategy was good but implementation was poor.