Michael Feath­ers presents an inter­est­ing man­age­r­ial anec­dote in “Send­ing Peo­ple Home”:

There are some ideas that you can com­mu­ni­cate effec­tively in orga­ni­za­tions and oth­ers that you can’t. In this case, there was clearly a man­ager who knew that twenty peo­ple couldn’t work on the build at once, and that there was noth­ing pro­duc­tive the other peo­ple could do. But, the fact that he knew it didn’t help.