Brooks’s Law
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The Small Challenge For Big Companies
Small = Optimised for Innovation Research suggests that smaller teams are more optimised for innovation. Indeed, as Dashun Wang and James A. Evans write for HBR, large teams can be better at development and deployment, but small teams are better at disruption. Their analysis… Continue reading
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Why Big Teams Keep Getting Bigger
Large teams, like large movie studios, are more likely to generate sequels than produce anything new Continue reading
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The Way We Work Isn’t Working
The office, after management, is arguably the biggest inefficiency tax that organisations layer over themselves. They cost huge amounts to procure and maintain, they become an all too convenient base for meetings (another inefficiency tax), and they set a precedent… Continue reading
Paul Taylor 