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Anecdotally I have seen that from around 50 on people don’t communicate with the CEO anymore but through some middle managers. If these middle managers aren’t really good, the company starts splitting into different camps that don’t communicate anymore.

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This has happened at my company that is now 35 people. Too many managers that have fractured communication. Getting things done was easy when there was 10 people.

> This has happened at my company that is now 35 people. Too many managers that have fractured communication.

How many managers do you have for this to be a problem at a company of 35?

This can happen even with small numbers of managers. It only takes one territorial or poorly-communicating asshole to fracture a broader organizer. If anything, a small number of managers exaggerates the damage that one bad manager can do.

Well, I guess this is why startups are so cool.

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