It’s not the size that counts
Posted on September 15, 2005
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Mena Trott and the 37 Signals folks have had a bit of back and forth on the relative advantages/disadvatanges of small and large teams in business. Interesting, but the real question is what works for you? There’s lots of ‘big’ companies that do OK, and lots of small companies that do well also.
If a big company isn’t managing their business well they’ll lose business to smaller nimbler players…or maybe they’ll organize themselves a bit better, around smaller teams, focussed on smaller problems. In my experience it is the tendancy of large organisations to try and boil the ocean that causes the kind of tension and inefficiency that people normally use to characterize big biz. But it doesn’t have to be that way. I don’t know for sure, but my impression of a (largish) company like Google is that they are good at deploying smaller focussed teams on specific problems and nailing them very efficiently.
Oh, and by the way I’d still call 6A a small company.
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