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How big companies kill ideas — and how to fight back, with Tony Fadell

Decoder with Nilay Patel

CHAPTER

The Hardest Lesson I've Learned From Your Company

As your company scales, the structure will break at certain amounts of people. The book really points out that as you get bigger, preserving the culture of a company, the spirit of a place, necessarily changed in layers of management. When you go forty to 60 to 70 people, you have to mentally change the way you lead and how you manage.

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