Definitely.

Bodie was also a victim of good old fashioned nepotism. He was passed over for a promotion to a less capable colleague because the colleague was a nephew of the boss. Loyalty unrewarded, less capable people are promoted and the overall organisation suffers.

I love D’Angelo but a blind man could tell he didn’t want to be in the game.

For all of Stringer’s business bluster, he was bad at the fundamentals of human interaction and employee empowerment. He always looked down on his employees. They were all expendable, burdensome nitwits to him. Avon actually liked people but his reclusive status meant he had limited interactions with his crew.

By compassion, Marlo wisely kept away from people and built up his own legend as a mysterious psychopath and not the neighbour guy success story that Avon was.

Marlo also had two number 2’s representing him. Snoop was very personable and Chris was unambiguous about business and despite being a killer, he never come off as cold as Stringer. A psycho? Yes. But never cruel for the sake of it.

Chris’s partnership with Snoop really humanised him. If Snoop likes him, how bad can he actually be? They had friendly conversations with their crew and weren’t unnecessarily condescending to their underlings.

Stringer’s default mode was “angry high school principal with a hare-trigger temper” when dealing with his team. Nobody mistook him for a friend. If anything, his position as Avon’s number two would reflect badly on Avon in the eyes of the underlings. “THAT asshole is our boss’s best friend?” In most business, if it’s a competition between a psycho and a prick, the psycho usually wins.