“The downside of hiring somebody that is unplanned goes beyond just the budget. The other side is a chaotic and inefficient org structure."
“People would add jobs to our master headcount plan spreadsheet seemingly at random. But we’d never notice that it was a net new add on a spreadsheet of hundreds of jobs. We’d just deliver on it. But it was never approved, it wasn’t in the budget or the forecast, and then we’d find it after the fact."