Middle management thinking is "With X resources, we created Y content in Z time. With 3X resources, we can do 3Y content in Z time or Y content in Z/3 time." This fails to consider the inefficiencies of bureaucracy and the pitfalls of team member overspecialization.
I see you too are familiar with The Mythical Man-Month. But yes. This is how managers think. If 5 people made a great product in a year, then 150 people should be able to make the exact same product in a month with the same margin. Then we can get the same ROI in 1/12 the time. Not only will that compound, we'll be profitable every quarter!
Middle managers have a lot in common with commies when it comes to understanding work and productivity.
yeah. but also part of being human is hubris and ego. solipsism, especially if women are involved. over-estimating our own abilities in fields we do not have any expertise in and under-estimating the value of those in fields that we don't really understand. It takes someone with just the right amount of humility and an understanding of human nature to make successful teams work out, long term.
look at our national economic system and their love affair with MMT (modern monetary theory). which boils down to, "It's different this time, guys! It's different this time because us boomers are uniquely intelligent, beautiful, and wise.".
I've worked manufacturing at a few companies and we had a saying about adding more people. "If a job takes one man three days, it will take nine days with three men."
Middle management thinking is "With X resources, we created Y content in Z time. With 3X resources, we can do 3Y content in Z time or Y content in Z/3 time." This fails to consider the inefficiencies of bureaucracy and the pitfalls of team member overspecialization.
I see you too are familiar with The Mythical Man-Month. But yes. This is how managers think. If 5 people made a great product in a year, then 150 people should be able to make the exact same product in a month with the same margin. Then we can get the same ROI in 1/12 the time. Not only will that compound, we'll be profitable every quarter!
Middle managers have a lot in common with commies when it comes to understanding work and productivity.
Imagine if the majority of people understood...basic fucking shit.
Utopia. Literally, utopia.
yeah. but also part of being human is hubris and ego. solipsism, especially if women are involved. over-estimating our own abilities in fields we do not have any expertise in and under-estimating the value of those in fields that we don't really understand. It takes someone with just the right amount of humility and an understanding of human nature to make successful teams work out, long term.
look at our national economic system and their love affair with MMT (modern monetary theory). which boils down to, "It's different this time, guys! It's different this time because us boomers are uniquely intelligent, beautiful, and wise.".
They think that 9 women can make a baby in a month if they just work together
They can if they use "The Force"...
I've worked manufacturing at a few companies and we had a saying about adding more people. "If a job takes one man three days, it will take nine days with three men."