I literally had the "big picture" in my possession once. It was Delta's pig bicture from the Ron Allen reorganization drawn up by McKinsey and Co. The rub was, I took it friends at State Farm (who were to be the next Company reorganized (aka FUBAR) by McKinsey) and showed it to them. We laughed and thought "there's no way anyone would be that stupid." Nearly 7 Billion dollars later and with a few thousand lost jobs we learned, "well damn, people would be that stupid."

Moral of the story ... the big pictures not all it's cracked up to be.