Do organizations have to get slower as they grow? (with Alex Komoroske)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
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Coordination Challenges Grow Superlinearly Based on Required Information Throughput
Organizations become slower due to the fundamental reason of the super linear acceleration in the effort required to coordinate across different priorities, driven by inherent uncertainty, varying information, and frequently changing conditions. The effort and overhead needed for coordination can become a significant portion of the overall effort, making tasks significantly harder. In larger organizations, the coordination challenge increases superlinearly as more people need to share information, context, and trust to see the full picture, and as communication needs to happen across larger teams and multiple teams.
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