[julik]

...by the passing of which the name of the game will be to find another vehicle for occluding reality and creating optics. Something to replace "bets" with "shaping" and "appetite", for example.

Connecting effort and outcome is hard as orgs get bigger, and a lot (a LOT) of those strategies have to do with optics and the "sponsors" being "on the wave" at the moment (trusted by owners/board). While it is not realistic to say "we do the work until it works and costs be damned" some tools for this are required, and I would say putting out a "bet horizon" of a year or a quarter is setting up some nice political battles in the future.