Scale vs. Speed: Why organizations slow down

If you compare a Starbucks of ten years ago to a current one, they’re virtually the same. Compare this to the originals in Seattle, and the difference is startling.

The same goes for the design of a typical McDonald’s.

Apple launched the Mac with about a dozen full-time people working on its development. Today, they have more than a thousand times as many engineers and they haven’t launched a groundbreaking product in a while.

The same goes for Google. And Slack.

It’s not just famous big brands. Just about every organization hits a point where the pace of innovation slows as scale increases.

This happens for a number of reasons, and there are two ways to deal with them.

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