Cost != price. Organizational friction is a cost; in fact it is the dominant hidden cost. Organizations that grow past Coase's ceiling are paralyzed by intern

Cost != price. Organizational friction is a cost; in fact it is the dominant hidden cost. Organizations that grow past Coase's ceiling are paralyzed by internal friction. They become unable to execute any mission: all they can do is to simply be an organization, with all the overfamiliar toxic manifestations. Any kind of organization: commercial, political, academic. Boiled down, the insight is that friction increases faster than the number of moving parts.