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In 2023, you might write this so that it doesn't sound anything like recent tech layoff memos.
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Anecdotally I have seen that from around 50 on people don’t communicate with the CEO anymore but through some middle managers. If these middle managers aren’t really good, the company starts splitting into different camps that don’t communicate anymore.
This has happened at my company that is now 35 people. Too many managers that have fractured communication. Getting things done was easy when there was 10 people.
When you join a small firm, you are joining the firm. When you join a large firm, you are joining the team. I asked a US Marine who he was loyal to, and he said his unit. Not his country or the military. The same happens at schools and universities: you might know your classmates on your course, but you don't know all the people at a university. Same goes if you're a sports fan. You might be a supporter, but your exp…
"Google cares deeply about making xyz more ABC." We know this is, at best, flowery language. "Google" can't care about xyz any more than an inanimate object can.
Maybe that's an exaggeration, but I do think personifying an organisation to a think that "wants," "loves," or "believes" is disingenuous. That's not the case, necessarily, for a smaller group.
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I've noticed that e.g. over dinner only groups of 5 or smaller can keep one coherent discussion going; if you go to 6 or more people they will inevitably split up into subgroups. That's why I think meetings where people are supposed to discuss an issue and come to a shared understanding of something can only be at most 5 people.
"One pizza" team
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I've noticed that e.g. over dinner only groups of 5 or smaller can keep one coherent discussion going; if you go to 6 or more people they will inevitably split up into subgroups. That's why I think meetings where people are supposed to discuss an issue and come to a shared understanding of something can only be at most 5 people.
"One pizza" team
> Within the past 12 months, our employee count rose above 150. With that growth, the organization has changed in ways that we didn’t anticipate. In 2023, you might write this so that it doesn't sound anything like recent tech layoff memos.
> ...they seem to me to be a new individual, not at all like single men. A man in a group isn't himself at all; he's a cell in an organism that isn't like him any more than the cells in your body are like you. People have said, 'mobs are crazy, you can't tell what they'll do.' Why don't people look at mobs not as men, but as mobs? A mob nearly always seems to act reasonably, for a mob.
... when group-man wants to move, he makes a standard. 'God wills that we recapture the Holy-Land'; or he says, 'We fight to make the world safe for democracy' ... But the group doesn't care about the Holy Land, or Democracy ... Maybe the group simply wants to move, to fight, and uses these words simply to reassure the brains of individual men. ... You might be an effect as well as a cause, Mac.
> Within the past 12 months, our employee count rose above 150. With that growth, the organization has changed in ways that we didn’t anticipate. In 2023, you might write this so that it doesn't sound anything like recent tech layoff memos.
This seems to have been written in 2017 judging by the dates they put in.
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This has happened at my company that is now 35 people. Too many managers that have fractured communication. Getting things done was easy when there was 10 people.
> This has happened at my company that is now 35 people. Too many managers that have fractured communication. How many managers do you have for this to be a problem at a company of 35 ?