In one of the battles in the time of the Khulafa Rashideen, the Muslim armies attacked a fort behind a trench.
With a trench, defenses spread thin: 500 people need to guard all points of the trench. So in any given area, you have only a few guards.
How did the Muslims succeed? They find the one lazy guy–if the trench is eight feet deep and six feet across, they find the location two feet deep and one foot across–and focus the entire army towards that one location, all the hundreds or thousands of mujahideen.
Three men cannot stand up to that kind of onslaught.
The “cut-throat corporate world” employs this technique as well. Learn from it. Benefit from it.