As VP of doubling, I would walk into a manager’s office and say, “Right now you have ten employees. Next year it’ll be twenty, in two years forty, and in three years eighty. Have you thought about how to hire seventy more people? Have you thought about how to organize a group of eighty people? Can any of your people manage a group of ten? In three years you’ll need eight who can.” My goal was to get people thinking big. If they couldn’t, then we’d have to hire a boss over them who could.
