To me, the worst part of the fantasy is that we then consider the people that actually do make it to the &quot;money shot&quot; as if they were management geniuses, instead of lottery winners.<p>Mostly the success has more to do with luck, timing and personal connections than the individual technical merits of the management team, but that is never what you read afterwards. And so you end up with all sorts of ridiculous management, methodology or market segmentation advice that bears little to no chance of ever working again. The same lottery ticket may win again, but it is highly improbable.