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...which Price's Law is this? The one I could find referred to the relationship between scientific literature on a subject and the number of authors publishing

• stephc_int13 4y ago
  That one, yes, generalized to any organization. https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/ https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/
  • ghaff 4y ago
    It's certainly true to some degree and it's pretty clear in areas like research. That said, even with the sales example, the superstar sales reps I know are generally selling to particularly lucrative industries and, critically, they're supported by a lot of other sales and marketing people (to say nothing of product) without which they'd be a whole lot less effective. Oh, and a company actually needs finance people and backoffice people to process orders etc. I don't doubt there's some truth to the notion. But people look at other groups even within their company and wonder what all those people could possibly be doing. And, guess what, people there are probably looking at your group and thinking the same thing even though you think you're ridiculously understaffed.