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"The bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the ever expanding bureaucracy" or something to that effect. I blame it on exceeding Dunbar's Number and creating
by blaser-waffle 6y ago
"The bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the ever expanding bureaucracy" or something to that effect.
I blame it on exceeding Dunbar's Number and creating different groups inside of an org, which now have different priorities and tribal affiliations, e.g. Ops vs. Engineering vs. Finance, or sub-teams inside of Engineering fighting holy wars about Tool [X].
- bumby 6y agoI’ve heard it described as a “self licking ice cream cone” I think the Dunbars number idea is interesting in terms of possibly describing how our organizational scaling has outpaced our biology