This reminds me of reading any number of posts on Bret Devereaux's "A Collection Of Unmitigated Pedantry" blog (acoup.blog) on the critical role logistics plays in an army...any army. The guys up front fighting can't get along without the guys in the rear running the baggage train, helping raid the countryside for food, etc. Organizations are all alike in this way...a spear without a shaft is just a badly-formed knife, and no one wants to get that close to use it.