One problem you soon encounter scaling up a bunch of small, autonomous teams is how they coordinate their work. The more teams you have, and the more autonomous they are, the less they are likely to collaborate, which many leaders will bemoan. In fact, when things in a company aren’t humming along, it’s common for leaders to exclaim “We need better collaboration” as the answer. And while that sounds nice, it’s not realistic to say that people just need to manage their thousands of relationships with other people and other teams better. The whole system, and agility, would collapse under the
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