Why Efficient Systems Often Fail When Conditions Change
Many organizations mistake efficiency for resilience. They are not the same investment.
Every idle server gets questioned. Every unallocated engineer gets scrutinized. Every hour reserved for planning gets treated as capacity that should be consumed.
On paper, this looks efficient. In reality, it removes the organization’s ability to absorb change.
The systems that survive disruption aren’t the ones running at 100% utilization. They’re the ones with enough slack to adapt when conditions change.
Resilience isn’t built during a crisis. It’s funded long before one arrives.
Why the most efficient organizations aren’t always the most durable.
https://primamachina.substack.com/p/resilience-requires-slack