Former secretary of state Colin Powell says that leadership is the ability to get someone to follow you even if only out of curiosity. I was certainl… - Ben Horowitz

leadership is the ability to get someone to follow you even if only out of curiosity.

Former secretary of state Colin Powell says that leadership is the ability to get someone to follow you even if only out of curiosity.

Nonetheless, at some point the monolithic design of one huge organization runs out of gas and you will need to split things into smaller subgroups. At the most basic level, you’ll want to consider giving the groups that you’ve specialized their own managers as they grow.

When you get really big, you’ll need to decide whether to organize the entire company around functions (for example, sales, marketing, product management, engineering) or around missions — self-contained business units that contain multiple functions.

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