Do people sometimes lose sight of the underlying purposes of their jobs?
Moshe and Aharon were trying to get Pharoah to take them (and G-d) seriously. It would have been in the interests of the magicians to support that goal, in order to get the Jews out of Egypt, so they could return to their normal lives, living well as advisors and magicians to Pharoah.
But when Moshe and Aharon turn a staff into a snake, water into blood, and bring out frogs, the Egyptian magicians do exactly the same thing!
What were they thinking? How could adding more snakes, blood and frogs possibly help Egypt?
The answer is that Egypt did not need more of these things. But the magicians could not see the Big Picture. They thought Moshe and Aharon were, in some ways, competitors, out to make the magicians look bad. Perhaps they were angling for their own jobs?!
This was, of course, a misunderstanding. But the lessons of this error have applicability today, do they not?
Is there a parallel between Pharoah’s magicians, and people working within government today? Is it possible that a failure to perceive and understand the Big Picture gets in the way of the fundamental strategic goals that are supposed to energize and focus government employees so that they work to improve our world?