The path to getting this game published was not easy. At one time, Barnes and Noble rejected the idea of publishing and selling the game because “Not enough people know who Kurt Vonnegut is” [1].
I walked into a B&N in a wealthy neighborhood of a major city. I went looking for the literature section, couldn't find it, and was finally directed to a narrow set of shelves at the end (i.e., the narrow edge) of an aisle. That was all they had.
At large orgs, the left hand rarely knows what the right hand is doing. Meetings, in general, are a waste of time, but there's something to be said about keeping everyone on the same page.
I remember one time going into a Books-A-Million and being flabbergasted when I asked someone at the Information desk to look and see if they had anything by T.S. Elliot in stock, and she said, "What does the T. stand for?"
[1]. https://web.archive.org/web/20211201220314/https://www.getre...