Isn’t the dominant mind set in industries “how do we perpetuate growth?” Aren’t engineers constantly bemoaning the fact they can’t aim for some project that might take as long as 3 years, because it would reduce next quarters growth report? It’s transparently obvious that [em]something[/em] will prevent the growth paradigm from manifesting, but at the present, it doesn’t seem like it will be because the MBA’s decided en masse that it was silly.