Small teams are capable of driving radical innovation, exemplified by companies like Instagram and original products such as the iPhone. Research indicates that while large teams refine existing technologies, small teams disrupt norms and amplify promising ideas. Startups benefit from fast-paced problem-solving due to their smaller size, allowing for better collaboration. However, adding team members increases challenges related to alignment and communication, leading to slower progress for larger teams. Effective alignment is easier with small teams, while larger teams encounter more logistical barriers in reaching consensus.
Small teams have disrupted science and technology by exploring and amplifying promising ideas from older and less popular work. Large teams have developed recent successes, solving acknowledged problems and refining common designs.
You're a small group of people with different specialties that can focus on a concrete problem and collaborate on solutions.
The larger the team, the slower it moves.
Aligning lots of people means attending lots of meetings.
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