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Ben Horowitz
The first scale technique to implement is specialization.
The first rule of organizational design is that all organizational designs are bad.
When you get really big, you’ll need to decide whether to organize the entire company around functions (for example, sales, marketing, product management, engineering) or around
missions—self-contained business units that contain multiple functions. Your goal is to choose the least of all evils. Think of the organizational design as the communications architecture for your company.
With this in mind, here are the basic steps to organizational design: