Do Organisations Have to Slow as They Grow?

https://clearerthinkingpodcast.com/episode/138
CULTURE
Issue #326
8 Jan 2023
Fascinating exploration of the organisational complexity, where the answer is basically ‘yes’, they do, the reason being that as organisations grow, they become more complex and ‘coordination headwind’ becomes the decisive factor in slowing everything down. I call this ‘cost of collaboration’ which amounts to the same thing, you need to be atomic if you want to move fast.