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Company growing pains

Started by brisbourne · 6 months ago

Posted by mobile phone:Many of you will have observed how companies go through a big personality shift as they grow. I’ve always explained that by the simple logic of size - as a company gets bigger there is more stuff going on and as it gets too much for people to keep in their [.. ... Continue reading »

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  • Actually Malcolm Gladwell is more than 2000 years late in writing about the optimal sie of organisations. The Romans figured this out a long time ago. For the reasons you mention, a Roman centurion was in the 150 range. So perhaps we should be reading more of Cicero than Gladwell if we want to understand modern times

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