Agreed! Companies were basically sticking a bunch of people in a primordial soup and then stepping back and hoping for abiogenesis. It turns out people are pretty creative, so you would often get it, but that doesn't make the primordial soup the be-all-end-all of company organization.

At some point you have to develop self-awareness, you have to develop structures capable of improving intentionally. Those structures will dramatically outperform the primordial soup approach, but they do take work to build.