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There's a company mentioned in The Tipping Point whose founder surmised that the opitmum number was around 100. He kept all his locations as self sufficient ent
by run4yourlives 19y ago
There's a company mentioned in The Tipping Point whose founder surmised that the opitmum number was around 100. He kept all his locations as self sufficient entities of no more that 100 people.
The details escape me now, but some other hacker that has read Gladwell will no doubt fill in the blanks.
- DaniFong 19y agoW.L. Gore & associates. http://www.gore.com/en_xx/ http://www.gore.com/en_xx/ The later Roman army was made up of eight (in the early republic, ten) soldiers per contubernium, which shared a tent and ate together. There were ten contubernia in a century. These numbers seem awfully familiar.
- run4yourlives 18y agoModern armies share structure that is essentially identical. Section/Squad (8-10) -> Platoon (30-40) -> Company (100-120)
- lanej0 19y agoI've been meaning to read The Tipping Point... now I really have to check it out (thanks)!