AN OLD-FASHIONED COMPANY is full of multitasking: meetings and deliberations where participants are only partly focused on the task at hand. There are lots of middle managers and experts in the room to give their input, even if they don’t have direct responsibility for implementation. And most employees are dividing their creativity and focus across many different kinds of projects at the same time. A MODERN COMPANY has a new tool in its arsenal: the internal startup, filled with a small number of passionate believers dedicated to one project at a time. Like Amazon’s famous “two-pizza team”—no
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