I have not but you are on to something. You mean the “tail fins on cars” guys in the 50s/60s who didn’t really address any of the real, important changes in autos?
Corporate managers tend to be myopic for the obvious reasons; so too, one supposes, the political consultants, who also depend upon the favors of those up the chain of command in the funding sources.
Not quite the same thing as the terror in the peacetime army, when an unrecognized Pfc. with a clipboard shows up in the area, until someone figures out to whom he is reporting.