Yep, perfectly describes the stereotypical useless executive that wants to show results by making some surface level modification. I often see it where I work at a lower level with new managers who want to rename the departments under them. It means they can immediately say in their first performance review "I created department X!".

Part of the way I identify good managers is by whether or not they do such a thing, or whether they wait a year to fully understand things before making more substantive changes. Or you know just running things normally, looking for those incremental improvements that add up over time in a bigger way.

That left the rest of the build mostly unscathed from input from the publisher. As I heard it told it was a fairly successful approach.

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> That left the rest of the build mostly unscathed from input from the publisher. As I heard it told it was a fairly successful approach.

David Siegel in Secrets of Successful Websites (1997) called them "neck bolts".

On the other hand is does describe what Google does which is constantly change/close its offerings in a way nobody wanted or asked for.

- Google, probably