Oh no! I find myself in agreement with Flap62 again
Having been involved in a major goat-****, I often have the feeling that if I could have sat down with someone with a brain, it could all have been avoided / fixed a long time ago.
Half the problem is the tendency for officers to run away from problems and just to do the minimum required by their little bit of the bureaucracy. Nobody sees the 'big picture' and the hotter the potato, the fewer want to even look for the big picture. If you can hire-in 'consultants' to take the difficult decisions for you, all the better.
Sadly, the route to promotion seems to be do nothing, therefore you can do nothing wrong.