What color is the bikeshed?

Anyone who has spent ANY time in business has learned that it is important for any new idea to leave room for the boss to add some obvious enhancement in order to put his/her fingerprints on it or it'll never get approved. This article is an excellent explanation of that phenomenon and gives good reasons why a multi-million dollar project can be approved without comment, and a cheap, simple fix can take months of debate before it is funded.