It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
From the Murphy's law canon. Its cost is systematically underestimated: it works because permission is a bottleneck, and it destroys the coordination that the bottleneck existed to provide.
In practice
- A manager who books the venue and tells finance afterwards gets the venue, and gets it four times before anyone objects.
- A team that ships without sign-off is faster for a year and has four incompatible systems by the third.