Excellent! :D If this was Reddit, each successive poster would quote N+1 rules for hiring people and/or running an organization. Since this isn't, I will jus

Excellent! :D If this was Reddit, each successive poster would quote N+1 rules for hiring people and/or running an organization. Since this isn't, I will just skip ahead to N = 14 http://www.lockheedmartin.com/aeronautics/skunkworks/14rules.html http://www.lockheedmartin.com/aeronautics/skunkworks/14rules... I think the requirement to reward managers for having small (but effective) teams is particularly insightful. We know about Fred Brooks and the Mythical Man Month, and we explain to the managers of our projects that 9 women can't produce a baby in 1 month until we are blue in the face, but they never seem to 'get it'. Surely one of the core problems with them 'getting it', is that even if they really did 'get it', in most organizations the incentive is towards larger groups, not smaller groups. Economists and psychologists have been telling us that incentives matter for a long time now, perhaps it is time to apply that to an organization structure in a genuinely scientific way.