> very sophisticated strategies/positioning that they simply cannot communicate

It's Matryoshka nested parallel construction for corporate strategy.

There's a real, coherent, aggressive strategy that only a few in the inner concentric circle know, that's ring-zero.

Then there's the strategy that ring-zero tells ring-one, which isn't the real strategy, but it's sufficient to get EVPs and VPs to execute in rough alignment with the true, ring-zero strategy.

Then ring-one does the same dance with ring-two, etc.