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Wow, that's salty! Mismanagement compared to what? An omniscient entity that understood exactly what global advertisement demand and capital costs would look like in advance? The real world is messy and runs on estimates for everything. If Google is 6% off on their estimate for human resources, it should not be labelled 'mismanagement'.

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Management goes beyond C-suite. Upper management makes predictions of their needs, their productivity, what they achieve and don't all the time, it's literally a job req. My org has consistently less than 2 percent error in predictions while growing.

Other orgs however grossly miscalculated the performance of their products and their capacity to deliver, by being wasteful and overambitious.

While not relevant to google, it is very difficult for me to sympathise with C suite with articles like this one[1] showing up.

[1] https://nypost.com/2023/01/19/microsoft-held-sting-concert-i...

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