[datascienced]

For cattle vs pets, it originally referred to devops: https://www.engineyard.com/blog/pets-vs-cattle/

However I have extended it here to any situation where you have systems in place that you can tweak over say hiring 3 staff and treating them very individually and not having much of an overarching plan.

I worked places where you had one star sales person with 20 years of experience in the industry and that person could sell like mad but if they left you lose all that there is no system around it. But in the short term paying that person overtime and getting out their way makes for a good quarter. But long term the org doesn’t learn anything.

Not in sales myself but just what I have observed from the engineering silo!