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This is going to be true of more professional military specialists as well. A Special Forces team will have an officer leading 4 sergeants - med, comms, weapons

This is going to be true of more professional military specialists as well. A Special Forces team will have an officer leading 4 sergeants - med, comms, weapons, and construction(/destruction). This is more of an exception rather than the rule though. I don't see how people are supposed to reasonably manage 10+ reports. At that point they are just a figurehead.

martin_a 5y ago
> I don't see how people are supposed to reasonably manage 10+ reports. True! I'm leading 5 people at work and I find that enough most of the time, as I still have projects that I'm actively working on, too. If there are more people to come, I'll ask to integrate some kind of "team lead" for some of them, before all the work I do is micromanage and respond to mails.