In my humble experience, that is the way of all corporate structures. The guy who can humbly, steadily crank out 100 widgets a day(FOREVER!) gets overlooked for the guy who comes in, cranks up the speed to 150/day, thumps his chest in pride, points at 'his' accomplishment and gets promoted(AGAIN!) before the consequences of the increased speed become apparent. Usually, when the machines break down because they can't handle the increased speed, or workers get burnt out, pissed off, and leave. Then the original guy gets blamed for the machine failures, delays for retraining, loss of production and inability to lead.