> I work at $BIGCO as a manager and have been told that, in practice, if I want to get a promotion to the next level, I'll need to grow my team large enough to have other managers reporting to me first.
Imagine if at $BIGCO they told you that in practice, you need to reduce headcount and run as lean as possible so that your team brings as much monetary value for the company with the least amount of expense instead...
I imagine a lot of IT folks or those in compliance would be promoted very fast and then quickly leave the company before the hidden costs caught up with them.
That's simply counter to how $BIGCOs work. Just look at infosec for a big corporation. There's no incentive on their part to minimize cost or disruption with strict security policies and audits. The people who feel the pain are the workers, not the CISSPs pushing STIG hardening rules. And if the C-Suite starts to wonder if all the time and money is worth it? Just show them some news reports of breaches. In many industries (especially highly regulated ones), the entire audit world of Deloitte et al is designed to make things unproductive.
Imagine if at $BIGCO they told you that in practice, you need to reduce headcount and run as lean as possible so that your team brings as much monetary value for the company with the least amount of expense instead...