Mhos quote (or rather, one of the many quotes from MohammadSalim)...
Let me define "management" that I have been practicing for these (oh god) 20 years: This comes up a lot when people try to do something and find out that as the number of individuals in the effort grow, the outcome of the group diminishes. So they try to bring in some technician who can make 1+1 add up to 1.5 instead of .03. In that sense this is a problem of engineering and like all other problems of engineering, the answers are everywhere except in engineering text books... Except for the fact that this has nothing to do with numbers of individuals in the project at all but rather has to do with the human energy that is ....