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Do organizations have to get slower as they grow? (with Alex Komoroske)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The N Squared Coordination Law

The N squared rule says if you have N people and they all have to communicate with each of the other people, then the amount of communication has to happen. In practice it is even richer than people give it credit for because there's lots of things that people feel like "I probably shouldn't bring this up" The more broadly the sort of surface area of the entire organizations, like strategic things they might plausibly be doing seems to increase the rate of how often this happens.

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