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Re:Napoleon as Organizational Designer (2009) [pdf] by a_d on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @05:14AM (#17505517)
Adding more “micro army” pods would exponentially increase the coordination costs / communication overhead. If communication is the main challenge then decentralizing power would lead to more org ineffectiveness (centralized/command-control structures would be better).

Anyway, as I commented earlier: I think the authors miss the central innovation that enabled org innovation — which is all the tech Napoleon developed around messaging!

Re:Napoleon as Organizational Designer (2009) [pdf] by azernik on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @05:37AM (#17505596)
He also, however, managed to reduce the coordination costs by that eternal go-to - finding subordinates he could trust, who would grok his plans well enough to DTRT even without a lot of communication. The Napoleonic armies had an enormous number of talented generals aside from the Great Man himself.