EPISODE · Mar 29, 2026 · 12 MIN
The headcount lie
from Polymathic · host Paul Welty
The assumption that work scales with people is so embedded in how organizations think that questioning it feels like questioning gravity. But one operator just ran ten parallel operations in a single day. The unit of capacity isn't the person. It's the decision-maker.
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The assumption that work scales with people is so embedded in how organizations think that questioning it feels like questioning gravity. But one operator just ran ten parallel operations in a single day. The unit of capacity isn't the person. It's...
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