Scaling Teams

Yep, that old guideline I’ve always had an aversion towards for decades biw. Are we even paying attention? Who prints CV’s these days, and why are we stuck with constraints from the printing era?

During my career, I’ve had to review innumerable CV’s. For so many decades that I still remember when the department was Personnel Management, then People Management, and the latest iteration under Talent Management. It did help that I’ve worked with clients from the Recruitment industry as well as Organisational Design and HR Change Management consultants.

5 > 20 is a walk through the park
20 > 100 takes a toil, planning and lot of effort 
100 > 500 the founding team members are going to be clueless and over stretched

While a great team culture can be instilled from the early days and with enough momentum will carry through the middle growth, do not assume it will carry through amongst hundreds without intentional team / org design.