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Re: Proofs by induction and real-world business needs

Joshua Go — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:30:54 -0000

You're completely right; it was a technically inaccurate choice of words. A more adequate word would have been "leading" rather than "managing" but I maintain my basic point. The fact that I mixed the two up -- even the fundamental difference between "leading" and "managing" -- goes to reinforce the overall point of this post, which is that things have to change to work on a different scale, whether that scale is bigger or smaller.

But yeah, I think you understood what I meant; the branching is what enables the organization to scale.

Re: Proofs by induction and real-world business needs

stevenloi — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:08:34 -0000

Makes me curious what triggered you to write about this.

Regarding you comment about managing 100 or even 10,000, I do not believe there's any sort of "managing" going on with that many people. There's a hierarchy where one can sit at the top of a 10,000 organization and give out high level goals and objectives, but he's certainly not managing them. He's manage his direct branches, that will in turn manage their direct branches. I guess the branches are the steps that enable the organization to scale.