Re:Attention is your scarcest resource
by harryf on Sunday September 06, 2020 @04:49PM
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10 is already too many. 8 is the limit before you get diseconomies of scale. This was already well described over 40 years ago in the mythical man month https://torchbox.com/blog/40-year-old-lessons-and-mythical-m... ... there’s also a ton of writing on ideal Marine squad size that tells the same story
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Do you have any good references for the squad size point?
If I remember right Corps Business talks about this https://www.amazon.com/Corps-Business-Management-Principles-...
...otherwise - being a bit of a history nerd - I’ve run into the idea many times in discussion of how military units have evolved over time. Much of the thinking about ideal squad sizes began in WW2 - don’t have single thing I can point you at though