He's right. The size of your team is a very predominant metric on which managers are rated. It's often a race between managers as to how many teams they can cre

He's right. The size of your team is a very predominant metric on which managers are rated. It's often a race between managers as to how many teams they can create. There are no checks in place because every manager in the chain of command has the same incentives. So the motivation is to grow even when it may not be prudent to, and to manufacture justifications for doing so. Massive political battles are fought in big organisations all the time, where departments try to steal teams and work, laying down a shit ton of inefficiency in their wake and wasting so much resource. One of the reasons big corporations are not good for society. They operate with heavy overhead, feasible only as a monopoly, with the cost being borne by consumers in the end. A market that encourages more small businesses, instead of fewer large ones in better for all in the end.