E.g., suppose the growing business needs more floor space. So, one option is a nice campus and the other is a boarded up old shopping mall. So, the campus is likely only a nice to have and “may never get done” and “sawdust”.

So the campus might have serpentine walks with nice interlocked pavers, a fountain, a lake, a nice lawn, box hedges, more in landscaping, some woods with some shaded picnic tables, a dignified sign at the entrance, a very welcoming reception area, etc. So, it’s gorgeous but expensive.

The old mall might have lots of smooth, strong concrete floors, electric power, HVAC, plumbing. There might be a good loading dock, a good roof that doesn’t leak, lots of parking. So, bring in some carpet and partitions, string cables overhead, and have lots of functional space. It’s cheap, hut it’s ugly! But the choice is not “mission critical”, and the nice campus may never get done.

This is just a hypothetical example, but there can be a lot of such extremely different choices in category C, “not mission critical”, “sawdust”. If neglect all of them, then maybe have lots of results functional but ugly like the boarded up shopping center. That sounds like maybe not so good.

http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/delegation-for-ceos-only/

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com