One of the basic parts of the author premise is just wrong: > The work capacity of an organization scales, at most, linearly as new members are added. Maybe a

One of the basic parts of the author premise is just wrong: > The work capacity of an organization scales, at most, linearly as new members are added. Maybe asymptotically, but usually - not at all. Different hires have specialty skills which existing employees/collaborators simply don't, and would have taken extremely long, or forever, to do what the new person can achieve handily. Also, some tasks are simply better geared towards multiple people collaborating; simplest example: assembling large IKEA furniture...