As a team grows, the complexity grows exponentially. A team of eight people has over 100 possible variations of who could be in a meeting room. When you hit 50 people, the permutations and combinations run into the tens of thousands. It’s a common experience for founders who grow a company from 0 to 50 people to discover staff who have been working at the company for weeks before they meet them. It’s also common to discover in a team of 50 that there are romantic relationships blossoming, people who strongly dislike each other, informal sub-committees meeting regularly and groups who are
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