> “investing in people” and “hiring the best talent” is as expensive as it is naive. All things in moderation. I've seen most of the spectrum at this point of

> “investing in people” and “hiring the best talent” is as expensive as it is naive. All things in moderation. I've seen most of the spectrum at this point of practices. Let's look at the opposite end. Hiring 'cogs'. Every time I've seen this attitude, the result Conway's law being expressed in the business; rube-goldberg type business processes and software that often require 'lots of bodies' but doesn't give optimal results. Even -worse- is when an org has 'cogs' in higher echelons. [0] TBH the most 'productive' places I worked at was one where 'the smartest person in the room' depended on the specific topic. [0] - I'm just saying, you don't get ahead of your competition by starting to do what Gartner says your competitors have already been doing for the last two years.