Followship is excellent creative work. I raised the wider issue a while back here:
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...iginality.html
but am beginning to wonder about the merits of the argument. The whole management bolleaux 'piece' may have some benefits:
if you put an infinite number of monkeys in a room with an infinite number of typewriters you'll eventually get the complete works of Shakespeare...
I'll caveat that by acknowledging the low number of typewriters at Air Command...
my point being that, eventually, they have to come up with something good.