@cstross Almost every time the beancounters take over, things go wrong. Because they can count everything, they think they know everything. As the old adage says, they know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

@carnage4life It’s worse than ‘buy a lot of lottery tickets’… it’s ‘I put all my money on 13 at roulette and it came up, so you should too’.
There are plenty of things you can do wrong after your number comes up, but avoiding such mistakes is just skilled management, and a lot of skilled managers don’t ever have that luck.