This is obviously a bad one-sided take. I have been on and lead understaffed and overstaffed teams. It's true that sometimes bad managers ask for more resources to compensate for bad leadership, teams with the wrong skills, or ill conceived projects.
I have also led teams where I really should have asked for more resources, or at least different resources to handle the task.
For me, second is the easier trap to fall into. Just because a project could technically be completed with clever management and if people putting heroic work, doesn't mean it should be done that way.
I started my career in small businesses and startups where it made sense to work hard and smart, because people had skin in the game and there was meaningful rewards and recognition. It has been a very hard habit to break. Few things are worse than grinding alien team hard and meeting oversized milestones I'm just realized that there's no pot of gold at the end and the reward would have been the same if you did it with twice the head count
I have also led teams where I really should have asked for more resources, or at least different resources to handle the task.
For me, second is the easier trap to fall into. Just because a project could technically be completed with clever management and if people putting heroic work, doesn't mean it should be done that way.
I started my career in small businesses and startups where it made sense to work hard and smart, because people had skin in the game and there was meaningful rewards and recognition. It has been a very hard habit to break. Few things are worse than grinding alien team hard and meeting oversized milestones I'm just realized that there's no pot of gold at the end and the reward would have been the same if you did it with twice the head count