It has a tendency to rankle managers trying to boost their headcount.
It's difficult to get a man to understand something when their raise depends upon them not understanding it.
I can still remember when the CTO I argued with came into the room one day and said that he'd been given the green light to hire as many additional people as he liked. He was grinning from ear to ear. I suspect he knew it wouldn't actually fix any of our issues but he didn't really care.
I've found if a book or idea doesn't come to them through their own network, then it's easily just dismissed. Especially if the book is nearing a half century old. About the saying that adding people to a late project makes it later, the simple retort was: "But we have agile scrum." End of discussion.
It's difficult to get a man to understand something when their raise depends upon them not understanding it.
I can still remember when the CTO I argued with came into the room one day and said that he'd been given the green light to hire as many additional people as he liked. He was grinning from ear to ear. I suspect he knew it wouldn't actually fix any of our issues but he didn't really care.