To be fair the other approach of a lot of managers and companies is to manage people as itemized resources -- and not for the convenience.

I think it would be positive of some mathematical or computer knowledge was used, like "don't just throw more people at the problem," "context switching cost" (and generally the whole work scheduling field).

But again "management" is not about people in most companies, but about keeping the jobs of the higher ups. It might be painful for all of us, but it is not like all managers don't know how to improve things.

fwiw, the OP is:

> Ben Balter is Chief of Staff for Security and Engineering at GitHub