You can't break even. You can't even quit the game. Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself. Either a thing will happen or it won't. Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
It's on the other side. People are always available for work in the past tense. The first 90 percent of the task takes 90 percent of the time, and the last 10 percent takes the other 90 percent. Magnum beats four aces. In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on.