bucket
screwup
backburner
malmanagement
mishandling
proxy fight
counterstrategy
retarget
when the cat's away the mice will play
cop-out
antistrategic
evolutionarily stable strategy
bureaucracy
it's lonely at the top
gimp
overmanagement
Peter principle
targeting
overmanage
under-accommodate
goalpost
underaction
multitarget
mismanage
strategy
safe harbor
displacement
hostile
educated incapacity
failure
obliviality
neglect
social pattern
negligence
neglectfulness
rules of the game
underkeep
bureaucratic inertia
proprietary
potato
law of diminishing returns
deprioritize
acting
short-sightedness
targetlessness
underprioritize
check and balance
counterproductive
encumber
make one's own luck
nerf
misoptimize
do-or-die
reblock
shiftless
misplacedness
antigoal
strike while the iron is hot
hit home
mistarget
let lie
overprioritize
excess
dog it
antiredundancy
on the wrong track
weasel out
backslide
silo
if we had ham we could have ham and eggs, if we had eggs
deshelve
misextrapolation
mismanufacture
bylaw
faff
strategics
unmanageability
dog
have the cards in one's hands
frosh
take the front seat
hostile takeover
cripple
scant
derank
long-termism
whatever it takes
corpocracy
passivity
hindersome
move
descope
flaw
miss the mark
passiveness
inadvertence
short-circuit
omission