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> You just can’t scale “total internal transparency” when the company doubles in size every year. _total_ internal transparency is trivial to scale. partial an

• IX-103 3y ago
  Not really. Total transparency requires effective communication. Effective communication requires a shared context* to be efficient. The larger the organization, the less shared context, the more overhead is spent catching people up on things they are not involved in. *By shared context, I mean there is certain background knowledge and assumptions that all parties involved have. Since they already have this context, they don't have to explain any of this and can skip ahead. Compare a theoretical physicist explaining their work to other physicists (lots of shared context) to them explaining it to a reporter (little shared context) -- in the second case it takes a lot more work to convey the same information.
• summerlight 3y ago
  If you want to stop internal transparency from accidentally becoming external transparency (or leak), it becomes extremely hard to scale.
  • andromeduck 3y ago
    I feel like the mistake is not having more local zones of total internal transparency but idk what my org is even thinking nowadays.