I don't know about your first point. We recently hired two persons who came from VeryBigBusiness Inc. and VeryImportantCorp Inc., so I assumed that they were at least slightly above the average. Soon it became evident that the only field were they both excel was the art of arranging unending meetings, being very vocal in those meetings, looking always too stressed and too busy, getting themselves in key projects while avoiding the day to day work, and never getting any real work done.

One of them was causing such friction with endless meetings and mail chains, that a project she coordinated that was a quagmire for six months was finished in the two weeks after she left.