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Right. It is also false to say there are no useful numbers in this space. For example: Dunbar’s number is 150. But it is misleading to expect an employee to ma
by afarrell 5y ago
Right. It is also false to say there are no useful numbers in this space. For example: Dunbar’s number is 150.
But it is misleading to expect an employee to maintain relationships with 150 people—they also have a family and friends.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
- pintxo 5y agoFrom the linked wikipedia: > However, enormous 95% confidence intervals (4–520 and 2–336, respectively) implied that specifying any one number is futile.
- clairity 5y agowhat’s more interesting about dunbar’s number is that it suggests a potential maximum for the size of an effective organization (say, 520) rather than pinpointing an optimum. the idea of a maximum like this appeals to intuition, so it’s worth studying more (and more quantitatively), but opposes ambition, which is probably why we don’t have plentiful research in this area already.