Team
Few is fun, functional, fast - agile . We cannot do everything alone. A gross is massive, but not necessarily good. Bigger is rarely better; in particular, employee growth ≠ good. Groups of people have their own physics (e.g., inertia/momentum, action/reaction, etc). Square-cube laws dictate size, weight and agility. So what's just right ? Much of the ceiling has been described by Dunbar - above 150, it becomes challenging for an individual to maintain deep relationships with more people. The beer test posits the same idea. Extreme misanthropes and introverts skew an order of magnitude fewer, while extroverts target 10x more. However, if teams are going to achieve extraordinary performance, between one-third and two-thirds of individuals' relationships need be outside of the company (e.g., friends, family, external professional network, service providers, suppliers, customers, etc.). The corollary: healthy pro...