it's situations like these that make me think perhaps we shouldn't be scaling quite so large. That is to say, quite so high. Scaling past a certain size puts y

it's situations like these that make me think perhaps we shouldn't be scaling quite so large. That is to say, quite so high. Scaling past a certain size puts you kind of further and further outside of what your environment can optimally sustain. Think if a fish in a bowl never stopped growing. Add to this the particular challenges that orgs with centralized decision making face when scaling (inertia, homogeneity, single-point-of-failure) and it becomes really hard to see the current big-fish trend as even remotely sustainable. Perhaps only semi-related, but I like the gore-tex model, myself. Scale out and shard. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303803687_Working_Without_a_Boss_Lattice_Organization_With_Direct_Person-to-Person_Communication_at_W_L_Gore_Associates_Inc https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303803687_Working_W...