The "spreadsheet mentality" is ignorant of the reality and values of intangibles. The prime example is bringing the global team together once per year for team

The "spreadsheet mentality" is ignorant of the reality and values of intangibles. The prime example is bringing the global team together once per year for team meetings and partying together. Such an initiative is priceless, as everyone knows who has ever witnessed one such event. People still talk about such events a decade later, but the accountants see them as waste and cut them. In fact, giving accountants and lawyers too much power in an organization compared to engineers is one of the major mistakes that leads to the "spreadsheet mentality": as they are non-technical, and many general managers might be, too, organizations tend to not trust their own judgment, so they start bringing in external consultants. Guess what, cutting spending that leads to intangible benefits is the first thing they do, calling it "low hanging fruit" of the "transformation".