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Competence Hierarchies

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

CHAPTER

The Killer Principle of Hierarchy

If you have ten employees three of them do half the work everyone understands that but if you have a hundred ten of them dohalf the work. If you have a thousand thirty of them doHalf the work and so and so that's a killer principle it also explains why large companies tend to collapse. Once you get up to a thousand you've got nine hundred and seventy people who are only doing half the work, he says. The richest thirteen people have as much money as the bottom I think it's two billion something like that according to Forbes.

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