True. But look at it from the perspective of the big company - they thrive on process more than empowerment and creativity. Btw, don't get me wrong, I am not defending Zynga. I lost all respec for that company after they asked some early employees to turn over their shares because they did not deserve as much as they held.
I think it depends on what you mean by "thrive". Humans with power like to consolidate power and suppress the emergence of threats to their power. But lack of innovation (or ability to even recognize the need for innovation) is a major killer of corporations in the long term.
So I think it's more accurate to say that managers thrive on process more than empowerment, because a lot of companies are functionally equivalent to feudal empires in their social structure.
