> Keeping things below 150 means you can manage the system by peer pressure, whereas above 150 you need some kind of top down, discipline-based management syste

> Keeping things below 150 means you can manage the system by peer pressure, whereas above 150 you need some kind of top down, discipline-based management system. > That’s because founder Bill Gore felt that when a unit of workers got big enough, “we decided” became “they decided.”